Information about #C4C4C4 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A quiet, subdued grey, #C4C4C4 appears airy and pastel-like. Designers typically reach for tones like this for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Double Concrete (#C5C5C3). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Triple Athens Grey (#C2C5C6) and Surf Spray Grey (#C8C4C5).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (196 each), placing #C4C4C4 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #C4C4C4: 12.0:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.7:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#C4C4C4 color variations
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#C4C4C4 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#C4C4C4 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#C4C4C4 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#C4C4C4 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 #C4C4C4 color
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Nearest named colors to #C4C4C4
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#C5C5C3
#C2C5C6
#C8C4C5
#C7C8C6
#C8C4C0
#BFC1C2
#BFC8C4
#C0C0C0
#C0BFC7
#C0C1BF
#BEC6C8
#C7C9BF
#C4C4C4 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#C4C4C4
- RGB196, 196, 196
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 23
- CSSrgb(196, 196, 196)
- HSL0°, 0%, 77%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 76.863%
- HSV0°, 0%, 77%
- HSB0°, 0%, 77%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.769
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.769
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.769
- GLSLvec3(0.769, 0.769, 0.769)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.769, 0.769, 0.769, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.769, 0.769, 0.769)
- Percentage of Red in RGB76.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB76.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB76.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDC4C4C4
- DECIMAL ID12895428
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers49 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
