Information about #787878 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #787878 reads as a quiet, subdued grey and feels open and friendly. 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 a hair away from Trojan (#757878). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Monsoon (#7A7679) and Detroit (#787774).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (120 each), placing #787878 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #787878: 4.8:1 contrast (passing WCAG AA) versus 4.4:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#787878 color variations
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#787878 color tints
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#787878 color shades
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#787878 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#787878 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 #787878 color
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Nearest named colors to #787878
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#757878
#7A7679
#787774
#7A7C76
#787973
#757575
#777972
#777672
#7A7772
#73787C
#7C7D79
#757D75
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#787878
- RGB120, 120, 120
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 53
- CSSrgb(120, 120, 120)
- HSL0°, 0%, 47%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 47.059%
- HSV0°, 0%, 47%
- HSB0°, 0%, 47%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.471
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.471
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.471
- GLSLvec3(0.471, 0.471, 0.471)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.471, 0.471, 0.471, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.471, 0.471, 0.471)
- Percentage of Red in RGB47.1%
- Percentage of Green in RGB47.1%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB47.1%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID787878
- DECIMAL ID7895160
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
