Information about #ADADAD color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #ADADAD reads as a muted, almost neutral neutral grey and floats near the light end of the scale. Expect to see shades like this in clean interfaces where content needs room to breathe. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Bombay (#AEAEAD). Nearby in the Register you will also find Silver Chalice (#ACACAC) and Ajay (#B0ACAE).
Technically, #ADADAD is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 173, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #ADADAD background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 9.4:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 2.2:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#ADADAD color variations
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#ADADAD color tints
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#ADADAD color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#ADADAD color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#ADADAD 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 #ADADAD color
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Nearest named colors to #ADADAD
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#AEAEAD
#ACACAC
#B0ACAE
#AEB0AA
#ACAFB1
#AFB1AE
#AFB2AF
#ADB2B0
#ADAAA8
#A8AAAB
#A8A9AD
#A9A9A9
#ADADAD color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#ADADAD
- RGB173, 173, 173
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 32
- CSSrgb(173, 173, 173)
- HSL0°, 0%, 68%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 67.843%
- HSV0°, 0%, 68%
- HSB0°, 0%, 68%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.678
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.678
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.678
- GLSLvec3(0.678, 0.678, 0.678)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.678, 0.678, 0.678, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.678, 0.678, 0.678)
- Percentage of Red in RGB67.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB67.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB67.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDADADAD
- DECIMAL ID11382189
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
