Information about #7E7E7E color
Basic facts about this digital color
#7E7E7E presents itself as a quiet, subdued 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 Silver Lining (#7F7F7D). Nearby in the Register you will also find Meridian (#7C7E7E) and Medium Grey (#7D7F7C).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (126 each), placing #7E7E7E exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. On this background, black text reaches a 5.2:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 4.1:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#7E7E7E color variations
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#7E7E7E color tints
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#7E7E7E color shades
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#7E7E7E color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#7E7E7E 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 #7E7E7E color
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Nearest named colors to #7E7E7E
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#7F7F7D
#7C7E7E
#7D7F7C
#808080
#7C817C
#837E7C
#7C7D79
#827F79
#838181
#808284
#7A7F85
#7E867B
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#7E7E7E
- RGB126, 126, 126
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 51
- CSSrgb(126, 126, 126)
- HSL0°, 0%, 49%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 49.412%
- HSV0°, 0%, 49%
- HSB0°, 0%, 49%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.494
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.494
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.494
- GLSLvec3(0.494, 0.494, 0.494)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.494, 0.494, 0.494, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.494, 0.494, 0.494)
- Percentage of Red in RGB49.4%
- Percentage of Green in RGB49.4%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB49.4%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID7E7E7E
- DECIMAL ID8289918
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
