Information about #737373 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#737373 presents itself as a softly muted balanced grey tone — one that carries an easy, daylight feel. It is a natural fit for versatile mid-ground roles, from cards to secondary buttons. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Nickel (#727472). Slightly further away sit Vintage Dark Grey (#737270) and Sonic Silver (#757575).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (115 each), placing #737373 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, white text works best on #737373: 4.7:1 contrast (passing WCAG AA) versus 4.4:1 for black. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#737373 color variations
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#737373 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#737373 color shades
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#737373 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#737373 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 #737373 color
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Nearest named colors to #737373
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#727472
#737270
#757575
#74736F
#777672
#777270
#71706E
#777770
#787774
#6F716E
#776F6F
#6D7773
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#737373
- RGB115, 115, 115
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 55
- CSSrgb(115, 115, 115)
- HSL0°, 0%, 45%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 45.098%
- HSV0°, 0%, 45%
- HSB0°, 0%, 45%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.451
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.451
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.451
- GLSLvec3(0.451, 0.451, 0.451)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.451, 0.451, 0.451, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.451, 0.451, 0.451)
- Percentage of Red in RGB45.1%
- Percentage of Green in RGB45.1%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB45.1%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID737373
- DECIMAL ID7566195
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
