Information about #898989 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#898989 is a muted, almost neutral neutral grey that carries an easy, daylight feel. It is a natural fit for versatile mid-ground roles, from cards to secondary buttons. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Half Gauntlet (#8B8A88). Slightly further away sit Silver Steel (#878786) and Taupe Gray (#8B8589).
Technically, #898989 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 137, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #898989: 6.0:1 contrast (passing WCAG AA) versus 3.5:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#898989 color variations
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#898989 color tints
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#898989 color shades
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#898989 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#898989 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 #898989 color
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Nearest named colors to #898989
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#8B8A88
#878786
#8B8589
#878785
#8A8984
#888A84
#8C8C8C
#848789
#8B8685
#8A8F8A
#8E8D8C
#848E88
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#898989
- RGB137, 137, 137
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 46
- CSSrgb(137, 137, 137)
- HSL0°, 0%, 54%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 53.725%
- HSV0°, 0%, 54%
- HSB0°, 0%, 54%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.537
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.537
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.537
- GLSLvec3(0.537, 0.537, 0.537)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.537, 0.537, 0.537, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.537, 0.537, 0.537)
- Percentage of Red in RGB53.7%
- Percentage of Green in RGB53.7%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB53.7%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID898989
- DECIMAL ID9013641
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers55 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
