Information about #3F3F3F color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #3F3F3F reads as a quiet, subdued balanced grey tone and 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 almost identical to Gravity (#3D4040). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Baltic Sea (#3C3D3E) and Charcoal Grey (#3C4142).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (63 each), placing #3F3F3F exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #3F3F3F background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 10.5:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 2.0:1. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:75), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#3F3F3F color variations
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#3F3F3F color tints
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#3F3F3F color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#3F3F3F color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#3F3F3F 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 #3F3F3F color
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Nearest named colors to #3F3F3F
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#3D4040
#3C3D3E
#3C4142
#434141
#43403C
#3C3B3C
#3D3A3C
#3D3C3A
#3E4145
#3A403B
#463E3F
#3E3A44
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#3F3F3F
- RGB63, 63, 63
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 75
- CSSrgb(63, 63, 63)
- HSL0°, 0%, 25%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 24.706%
- HSV0°, 0%, 25%
- HSB0°, 0%, 25%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.247
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.247
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.247
- GLSLvec3(0.247, 0.247, 0.247)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.247, 0.247, 0.247, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.247, 0.247, 0.247)
- Percentage of Red in RGB24.7%
- Percentage of Green in RGB24.7%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB24.7%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyDark
- HEX ID3F3F3F
- DECIMAL ID4144959
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
