Information about #B5B5B5 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A quiet, subdued grey, #B5B5B5 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 practically indistinguishable from Gray Cloud (#B6B6B4). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Triple Concrete (#B7B6B5) and Surrender (#B5B7B7).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (181 each), placing #B5B5B5 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #B5B5B5: 10.2:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 2.1:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#B5B5B5 color variations
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#B5B5B5 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#B5B5B5 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#B5B5B5 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#B5B5B5 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 #B5B5B5 color
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Nearest named colors to #B5B5B5
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#B6B6B4
#B7B6B5
#B5B7B7
#B3B3B3
#B6B5B9
#B1B6B7
#B7B8B2
#BAB7B5
#B7B4B0
#B7BAB6
#B1B9B4
#B3BBB7
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#B5B5B5
- RGB181, 181, 181
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 29
- CSSrgb(181, 181, 181)
- HSL0°, 0%, 71%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 70.98%
- HSV0°, 0%, 71%
- HSB0°, 0%, 71%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.710
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.710
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.710
- GLSLvec3(0.710, 0.710, 0.710)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.710, 0.710, 0.710, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.710, 0.710, 0.710)
- Percentage of Red in RGB71%
- Percentage of Green in RGB71%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB71%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDB5B5B5
- DECIMAL ID11908533
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
