Information about #818080 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A muted, almost neutral grey, #818080 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 almost identical to Grey (#808080). Slightly further away sit Teravenumar (#838181) and Silver Lining (#7F7F7D).
Technically, the mix leans on its red channel (rgb(129, 128, 128)), which gives #818080 its character. On this background, black text reaches a 5.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 3.9:1. #818080 has no official name yet. If this shade means something to you, you can be the one to name it.
#818080 color variations
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#818080 color tints
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#818080 color shades
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#818080 color hues
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#818080 color harmonies
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Complementary
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#818080 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 #818080 color
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Nearest named colors to #818080
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#808080
#838181
#7F7F7D
#808284
#837E7C
#848482
#83857F
#7C7E7E
#7D7F7C
#848484
#7C817C
#827F79
#818080 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#818080
- RGB129, 128, 128
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 49
- CSSrgb(129, 128, 128)
- HSL0°, 0%, 50%
- HSL Precise0°, 0.395%, 50.392%
- HSV0°, 1%, 51%
- HSB0°, 1%, 51%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.506
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.502
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.502
- GLSLvec3(0.506, 0.502, 0.502)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.506, 0.502, 0.502, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.506, 0.502, 0.502)
- Percentage of Red in RGB50.6%
- Percentage of Green in RGB50.2%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB50.2%
- Color FamilyRed
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID818080
- DECIMAL ID8487040
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers26 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
