Information about #9B9B9B color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #9B9B9B reads as a softly muted neutral grey and appears airy and pastel-like. Expect to see shades like this in minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Triple Surrender (#999C9D). Its next-closest registered neighbors are KOOL GREY (#9A9C9E) and Half Stack (#989C99).
Technically, #9B9B9B is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 155, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #9B9B9B: 7.6:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 2.8:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#9B9B9B color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
#9B9B9B color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#9B9B9B color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#9B9B9B color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#9B9B9B 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 #9B9B9B color
View adjacent and very similar colors.
Nearest named colors to #9B9B9B
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#999C9D
#9A9C9E
#989C99
#9C979B
#9F9B9D
#9D9F9A
#989898
#999B95
#A09F9C
#A19A98
#9FA19E
#9EA0A1
#9B9B9B color backgrounds & wallpapers
Download color wallpaper / background for your Desktop PC, Tablet or Mobile phone.
Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#9B9B9B
- RGB155, 155, 155
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 39
- CSSrgb(155, 155, 155)
- HSL0°, 0%, 61%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 60.784%
- HSV0°, 0%, 61%
- HSB0°, 0%, 61%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.608
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.608
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.608
- GLSLvec3(0.608, 0.608, 0.608)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.608, 0.608, 0.608, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.608, 0.608, 0.608)
- Percentage of Red in RGB60.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB60.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB60.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX ID9B9B9B
- DECIMAL ID10197915
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- This page visited6 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
