Information about #8D8D8D color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted balanced grey tone, #8D8D8D 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 Fashion Gray (#8E8D8C). Slightly further away sit Philippine Gray (#8C8C8C) and Avatar (#8B8F8E).
Technically, #8D8D8D is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 141, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 6.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 3.3:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#8D8D8D color variations
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#8D8D8D color tints
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#8D8D8D color shades
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#8D8D8D color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#8D8D8D 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 #8D8D8D color
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Nearest named colors to #8D8D8D
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#8E8D8C
#8C8C8C
#8B8F8E
#8E918F
#8A8F8A
#8B8A88
#8D9094
#929288
#8B8589
#8A8984
#848E88
#928F84
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#8D8D8D
- RGB141, 141, 141
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 45
- CSSrgb(141, 141, 141)
- HSL0°, 0%, 55%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 55.294%
- HSV0°, 0%, 55%
- HSB0°, 0%, 55%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.553
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.553
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.553
- GLSLvec3(0.553, 0.553, 0.553)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.553, 0.553, 0.553, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.553, 0.553, 0.553)
- Percentage of Red in RGB55.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB55.3%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB55.3%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID8D8D8D
- DECIMAL ID9276813
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- This page visited3 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
