Information about #878787 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A muted, almost neutral neutral grey, #878787 sits on the lighter side of the spectrum. Expect to see shades like this in understated, calm designs that favor harmony over drama. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Silver Steel (#878786). Nearby in the Register you will also find Jumbo (#878785) and Aluminium (#848789).
Technically, #878787 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 135, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #878787 background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 5.8:1 (passing WCAG AA), while white manages only 3.6:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#878787 color variations
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#878787 color tints
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#878787 color shades
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#878787 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#878787 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 #878787 color
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Nearest named colors to #878787
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#878786
#878785
#848789
#888A84
#8B8685
#8A8984
#8B8589
#8B8A88
#848484
#878681
#818988
#848482
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#878787
- RGB135, 135, 135
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 47
- CSSrgb(135, 135, 135)
- HSL0°, 0%, 53%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 52.941%
- HSV0°, 0%, 53%
- HSB0°, 0%, 53%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.529
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.529
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.529
- GLSLvec3(0.529, 0.529, 0.529)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.529, 0.529, 0.529, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.529, 0.529, 0.529)
- Percentage of Red in RGB52.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB52.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB52.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID878787
- DECIMAL ID8882055
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
