Information about #222222 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted balanced grey tone, #222222 leans clearly toward the dark side. Designers typically reach for tones like this for night-mode interfaces and high-contrast pairings with light text. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Black Charcoal (#212121). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Plock Gray (#232224) and Raisin Black (#242124).
Technically, #222222 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 34, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #222222 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 15.9:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 1.3:1. For print, note the heavy black component (K:87) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#222222 color variations
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#222222 color tints
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#222222 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#222222 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#222222 belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, and greyscale colors have no hue. Hue is an angle on the color wheel, and that angle only exists when a color leans toward one primary more than the others. Here all three channels are equal (R = G = B), so there is nothing to lean and no angle to measure.
Everything built on rotating that angle therefore has nothing to rotate. A complementary color is the hue 180° away — for a grey, that is the same grey. The same goes for analogous, triadic, tetradic and square harmonies. Rather than show seven identical swatches, the register leaves the Hues variation strip and the whole Harmonies section out.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints, shades and tones still work, because they move the color up and down the scale instead of around the wheel. So do the nearest named colors, the conversions and the adjacent color codes.
How the register classifies colors · All greyscale colors in the register
Alternatives to #222222 color
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Nearest named colors to #222222
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#212121
#232224
#242124
#252321
#26211F
#252525
#1D2020
#27221F
#282020
#292421
#28201D
#24221A
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#222222
- RGB34, 34, 34
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 87
- CSSrgb(34, 34, 34)
- HSL0°, 0%, 13%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 13.333%
- HSV0°, 0%, 13%
- HSB0°, 0%, 13%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.133
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.133
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.133
- GLSLvec3(0.133, 0.133, 0.133)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.133, 0.133, 0.133, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.133, 0.133, 0.133)
- Percentage of Red in RGB13.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB13.3%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB13.3%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyDark
- HEX ID222222
- DECIMAL ID2236962
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
