Information about #808081 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #808081 reads as a softly muted balanced grey tone and carries an easy, daylight feel. Designers typically reach for tones like this for balanced palettes where no single element should shout. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Grey (#808080). Slightly further away sit Teravenumar (#838181) and Sword (#808284).
In RGB terms — rgb(128, 128, 129) — the blue channel does the heavy lifting here. On this background, black text reaches a 5.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 3.9:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #808081 is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#808081 color variations
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#808081 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#808081 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#808081 color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#808081 color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#808081 sits almost exactly at the middle of the lightness scale and carries very little saturation, so the register leaves the Tones strip out: every step of that strip would round back to this same color.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints and shades 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 #808081 color
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Nearest named colors to #808081
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#808080
#838181
#808284
#7F7F7D
#7C7E7E
#848482
#7D7F7C
#837E7C
#83857F
#848484
#7C817C
#808782
#808081 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#808081
- RGB128, 128, 129
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 49
- CSSrgb(128, 128, 129)
- HSL240°, 0%, 50%
- HSL Precise240°, 0.395%, 50.392%
- HSV240°, 1%, 51%
- HSB240°, 1%, 51%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.502
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.502
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.506
- GLSLvec3(0.502, 0.502, 0.506)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.502, 0.502, 0.506, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.502, 0.502, 0.506)
- Percentage of Red in RGB50.2%
- Percentage of Green in RGB50.2%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB50.6%
- Color FamilyBlue
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID808081
- DECIMAL ID8421505
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers38 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
