Raisin Black Color Codes

Raisin Black is a very dark neutral grey with the hex code #242124, RGB values of 36, 33, 36 and an HSL value of hsl(300, 4%, 14%).

HEX	#242124
RGB	36, 33, 36
HSL	hsl(300, 4%, 14%)
HSV	300°, 8%, 14%
CMYK	0%, 8%, 0%, 86%
LAB	13.17, 2.14, -1.51
CIELCHuv	13.17, 1.82, 307.72°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 426 C ΔE 6.2 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: black ΔE 13.4

Source Wikipedia, List of colors

Raisin Black Color Hex Code

The Raisin Black color hex code is #242124. Those six digits are three pairs, 24 for red, 21 for green and 24 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#242124

Raisin Black Color RGB Code

The Raisin Black RGB code is rgb(36, 33, 36). Red carries the most light at 36 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(36, 33, 36)

Raisin Black Color HSV Code

The Raisin Black HSV code is 300°, 8%, 14%. Read it as a hue of 300 degrees, 8% saturation and 14% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

300°, 8%, 14%

Raisin Black Color CIELChuv Code

The Raisin Black CIELCHuv code is 13.17, 1.82, 307.72°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 13 means dark to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 2 is how far it sits from grey.

13.17, 1.82, 307.72°

Tonal scale

What are Raisin Black Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

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Palettes

What are Raisin Black Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #242124. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #212421, a very dark neutral grey. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Either side sit #232124 and #242123, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#242421 and #212424 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #232421 and #212423. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #212421, and #242321 with #212324. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

15.93:1

15.93

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

1.32:1

1.32

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Raisin Black clears WCAG AA against white at 15.93:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 15.93:1. With very little saturation it behaves as a neutral, which makes it a good background or a supporting tone alongside a stronger accent.

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Color vision

How Raisin Black looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#232323

Raisin Black holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 2.7

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#232323

Raisin Black holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 2.7

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#242323

Raisin Black holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 2.5

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#222222

Raisin Black holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 2.6

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

Raisin Black is stable under the common forms of color blindness: to a deuteranope it reads as #232323, a shift of only ΔE 2.7, which is close to imperceptible. The widest shift is under protanopia, at ΔE 2.7. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

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Snippets

Using Raisin Black in code

:root {
  --raisin-black: #242124;
}

.example {
  color: var(--raisin-black);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'raisin-black': '#242124',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let raisinBlack = Color(
    red: 0.141,
    green: 0.129,
    blue: 0.141
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="raisin_black">#242124</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const raisinBlack = Color(0xFF242124);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Raisin Black Color?

Raisin Black reads as formality. It is dark enough to hold white type without help, and at 4% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 13 it behaves as a neutral color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Raisin Black Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Black (#000000), though it is not a match: Delta-E 13.4 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 426 C at #2B2B28. The name Raisin Black is the one carried by Wikipedia's list of colors.

How is Raisin Black Color Made?

On a screen Raisin Black is made by additive light: 36 red, 33 green and 36 blue out of 255, with red leading and 33 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 8%, 0%, 86%. Starting from the pure hue at 300 degrees, Raisin Black is a shade, so it is that hue with black added.