Information about #595959 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #595959 reads as a quiet, subdued balanced grey tone and holds a balanced mid-tone. Expect to see shades like this in versatile mid-ground roles, from cards to secondary buttons. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Gray Dolphin (#5C5858). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Tinpan Alley (#5C5B59) and Landscape Grey (#555759).
Technically, #595959 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 89, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, white text works best on #595959: 7.0:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 3.0:1 for black. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:65), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#595959 color variations
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#595959 color tints
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#595959 color shades
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#595959 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#595959 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 #595959 color
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Nearest named colors to #595959
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#5C5858
#5C5B59
#555759
#57595D
#5A5755
#565657
#55585C
#595A5E
#54585A
#5B5D56
#5C5D56
#535959
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#595959
- RGB89, 89, 89
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 65
- CSSrgb(89, 89, 89)
- HSL0°, 0%, 35%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 34.902%
- HSV0°, 0%, 35%
- HSB0°, 0%, 35%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.349
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.349
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.349
- GLSLvec3(0.349, 0.349, 0.349)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.349, 0.349, 0.349, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.349, 0.349, 0.349)
- Percentage of Red in RGB34.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB34.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB34.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyNeutral
- HEX ID595959
- DECIMAL ID5855577
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
