Information about #262626 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A quiet, subdued grey, #262626 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 Nero (#252525). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Maxwell Smart (#2A2525) and Bokara Grey (#2A2725).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (38 each), placing #262626 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #262626 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 15.1:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 1.4:1. For print, note the heavy black component (K:85) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#262626 color variations
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#262626 color tints
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#262626 color shades
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#262626 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#262626 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 #262626 color
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Nearest named colors to #262626
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#252525
#2A2525
#2A2725
#232224
#24252B
#242124
#252321
#26272C
#292421
#2A2922
#2A252C
#282A2C
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#262626
- RGB38, 38, 38
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 85
- CSSrgb(38, 38, 38)
- HSL0°, 0%, 15%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 14.902%
- HSV0°, 0%, 15%
- HSB0°, 0%, 15%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.149
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.149
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.149
- GLSLvec3(0.149, 0.149, 0.149)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.149, 0.149, 0.149, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.149, 0.149, 0.149)
- Percentage of Red in RGB14.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB14.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB14.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyDark
- HEX ID262626
- DECIMAL ID2500134
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
