Information about #616161 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#616161 is a quiet, subdued balanced grey tone that holds a balanced mid-tone. In practice it works well for understated, calm designs that favor harmony over drama. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Storm Dust (#646463). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Carbon Gray (#625D5D) and Triple Stack (#656660).
Technically, #616161 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 97, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #616161 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 6.2:1 (passing WCAG AA), while black manages only 3.4:1. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:62), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#616161 color variations
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#616161 color tints
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#616161 color shades
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#616161 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#616161 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 #616161 color
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Nearest named colors to #616161
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#646463
#625D5D
#656660
#5E6267
#656664
#5B605C
#67635C
#685D63
#605A67
#686765
#676767
#696268
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#616161
- RGB97, 97, 97
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 62
- CSSrgb(97, 97, 97)
- HSL0°, 0%, 38%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 38.039%
- HSV0°, 0%, 38%
- HSB0°, 0%, 38%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.380
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.380
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.380
- GLSLvec3(0.380, 0.380, 0.380)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.380, 0.380, 0.380, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.380, 0.380, 0.380)
- Percentage of Red in RGB38%
- Percentage of Green in RGB38%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB38%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyNeutral
- HEX ID616161
- DECIMAL ID6381921
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
