Information about #6B6B6B color
Basic facts about this digital color
#6B6B6B is a quiet, subdued balanced grey tone that feels open and friendly. It is a natural fit for understated, calm designs that favor harmony over drama. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Scarpa Flow (#6B6A6C). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Dim Gray (#696969) and Traffic (#6C6D68).
Technically, #6B6B6B is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 107, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #6B6B6B background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 5.3:1 (passing WCAG AA), while black manages only 3.9:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#6B6B6B color variations
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#6B6B6B color tints
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#6B6B6B color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#6B6B6B color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#6B6B6B 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 #6B6B6B color
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Nearest named colors to #6B6B6B
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#6B6A6C
#696969
#6C6D68
#6C6E6D
#6D6968
#666A6D
#6F676C
#6E6767
#6F6F6E
#676767
#6D726C
#716F69
#6B6B6B color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#6B6B6B
- RGB107, 107, 107
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 58
- CSSrgb(107, 107, 107)
- HSL0°, 0%, 42%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 41.961%
- HSV0°, 0%, 42%
- HSB0°, 0%, 42%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.420
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.420
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.420
- GLSLvec3(0.420, 0.420, 0.420)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.420, 0.420, 0.420, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.420, 0.420, 0.420)
- Percentage of Red in RGB42%
- Percentage of Green in RGB42%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB42%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID6B6B6B
- DECIMAL ID7039851
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
