Information about #7A7A7A color
Basic facts about this digital color
#7A7A7A presents itself as a muted, almost neutral neutral grey — one that sits on the lighter side of the spectrum. In practice it works well for balanced palettes where no single element should shout. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Industrial Silver (#7C7D79). Nearby in the Register you will also find Monsoon (#7A7679) and Gunsmoke (#7A7C76).
Technically, #7A7A7A is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 122, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 4.9:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 4.3:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#7A7A7A color variations
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#7A7A7A color tints
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#7A7A7A 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 #7A7A7A color
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Nearest named colors to #7A7A7A
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#7C7D79
#7A7679
#7A7C76
#757878
#7C7E7E
#7D7F7C
#787774
#787973
#7C817C
#73787C
#757D75
#7F7F7D
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#7A7A7A
- RGB122, 122, 122
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 52
- CSSrgb(122, 122, 122)
- HSL0°, 0%, 48%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 47.843%
- HSV0°, 0%, 48%
- HSB0°, 0%, 48%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.478
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.478
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.478
- GLSLvec3(0.478, 0.478, 0.478)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.478, 0.478, 0.478, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.478, 0.478, 0.478)
- Percentage of Red in RGB47.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB47.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB47.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID7A7A7A
- DECIMAL ID8026746
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
