Information about #C6C6C6 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #C6C6C6 reads as a muted, almost neutral grey and floats near the light end of the scale. Designers typically reach for tones like this for clean interfaces where content needs room to breathe. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Quarter Silver Chalice (#C7C8C6). Nearby in the Register you will also find Surf Spray Grey (#C8C4C5) and Double Concrete (#C5C5C3).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (198 each), placing #C6C6C6 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #C6C6C6 background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 12.3:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 1.7:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#C6C6C6 color variations
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#C6C6C6 color tints
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#C6C6C6 color shades
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#C6C6C6 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#C6C6C6 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 #C6C6C6 color
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Nearest named colors to #C6C6C6
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#C7C8C6
#C8C4C5
#C5C5C3
#C2C5C6
#C8C4C0
#CCC9C8
#C6CCCA
#C4CDC7
#BFC8C4
#C7C9BF
#BEC6C8
#CBC9C0
#C6C6C6 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#C6C6C6
- RGB198, 198, 198
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 22
- CSSrgb(198, 198, 198)
- HSL0°, 0%, 78%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 77.647%
- HSV0°, 0%, 78%
- HSB0°, 0%, 78%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.776
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.776
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.776
- GLSLvec3(0.776, 0.776, 0.776)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.776, 0.776, 0.776, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.776, 0.776, 0.776)
- Percentage of Red in RGB77.6%
- Percentage of Green in RGB77.6%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB77.6%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDC6C6C6
- DECIMAL ID13027014
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers330 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
