Information about #717171 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#717171 is a muted, almost neutral grey that sits on the lighter side of the spectrum. It is a natural fit for balanced palettes where no single element should shout. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Vintage Dark Grey (#737270). Nearby in the Register you will also find Dark Silver (#71706E) and Nickel (#727472).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (113 each), placing #717171 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. On this background, white text reaches a 4.9:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); black stays at 4.3:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#717171 color variations
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#717171 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#717171 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#717171 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#717171 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 #717171 color
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Nearest named colors to #717171
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#737270
#71706E
#727472
#6F716E
#6F6F6E
#74736F
#726E6D
#777270
#6D726C
#776F6F
#757575
#6C6E6D
#717171 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#717171
- RGB113, 113, 113
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 56
- CSSrgb(113, 113, 113)
- HSL0°, 0%, 44%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 44.314%
- HSV0°, 0%, 44%
- HSB0°, 0%, 44%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.443
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.443
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.443
- GLSLvec3(0.443, 0.443, 0.443)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.443, 0.443, 0.443, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.443, 0.443, 0.443)
- Percentage of Red in RGB44.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB44.3%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB44.3%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID717171
- DECIMAL ID7434609
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
