Information about #A8A8A8 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#A8A8A8 presents itself as a muted, almost neutral neutral grey — one that has a delicate, washed-out lightness. In practice it works well for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Dark Gray (#A9A9A9). Slightly further away sit Atmosphere (#A8AAA6) and Quick Silver (#A6A6A6).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (168 each), placing #A8A8A8 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #A8A8A8: 8.8:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 2.4:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#A8A8A8 color variations
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#A8A8A8 color tints
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#A8A8A8 color shades
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#A8A8A8 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#A8A8A8 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 #A8A8A8 color
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Nearest named colors to #A8A8A8
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#A9A9A9
#A8AAA6
#A6A6A6
#A8AAAB
#A9A5A5
#A6ABA5
#A8A9AD
#ADAAA8
#ACACAC
#A1A9A8
#A4AEA8
#A5ADAD
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#A8A8A8
- RGB168, 168, 168
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 34
- CSSrgb(168, 168, 168)
- HSL0°, 0%, 66%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 65.882%
- HSV0°, 0%, 66%
- HSB0°, 0%, 66%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.659
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.659
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.659
- GLSLvec3(0.659, 0.659, 0.659)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.659, 0.659, 0.659, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.659, 0.659, 0.659)
- Percentage of Red in RGB65.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB65.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB65.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDA8A8A8
- DECIMAL ID11053224
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
