Information about #818081 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A quiet, subdued grey, #818081 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 almost identical to Grey (#808080). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Teravenumar (#838181) and Sword (#808284).
Technically, the mix leans on its red channel (rgb(129, 128, 129)), which gives #818081 its character. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #818081: 5.3:1 contrast (passing WCAG AA) versus 3.9:1 for white. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #818081 is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#818081 color variations
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#818081 color tints
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#818081 color shades
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#818081 color hues
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#818081 color harmonies
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Complementary
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#818081 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 #818081 color
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Nearest named colors to #818081
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#808080
#838181
#808284
#7F7F7D
#848482
#837E7C
#83857F
#848484
#7C7E7E
#7D7F7C
#7C817C
#808782
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#818081
- RGB129, 128, 129
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 49
- CSSrgb(129, 128, 129)
- HSL300°, 0%, 50%
- HSL Precise300°, 0.395%, 50.392%
- HSV300°, 1%, 51%
- HSB300°, 1%, 51%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.506
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.502
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.506
- GLSLvec3(0.506, 0.502, 0.506)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.506, 0.502, 0.506, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.506, 0.502, 0.506)
- Percentage of Red in RGB50.6%
- Percentage of Green in RGB50.2%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB50.6%
- Color FamilyMagenta
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID818081
- DECIMAL ID8487041
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers13 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
