Information about #969696 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A muted, almost neutral neutral grey, #969696 sits on the lighter side of the spectrum. Designers typically reach for tones like this for understated, calm designs that favor harmony over drama. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from White Metal (#949594). Nearby in the Register you will also find Spanish Gray (#989898) and Amber Grey (#929698).
Technically, #969696 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 150, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #969696 background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 7.1:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 3.0:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#969696 color variations
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#969696 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#969696 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#969696 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#969696 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 #969696 color
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Nearest named colors to #969696
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#949594
#989898
#929698
#989692
#999B95
#989C99
#9A9991
#9C979B
#9F9596
#98958D
#999C9D
#998E91
#969696 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#969696
- RGB150, 150, 150
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 41
- CSSrgb(150, 150, 150)
- HSL0°, 0%, 59%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 58.824%
- HSV0°, 0%, 59%
- HSB0°, 0%, 59%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.588
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.588
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.588
- GLSLvec3(0.588, 0.588, 0.588)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.588, 0.588, 0.588, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.588, 0.588, 0.588)
- Percentage of Red in RGB58.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB58.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB58.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID969696
- DECIMAL ID9868950
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
