Information about #C9C9C9 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#C9C9C9 presents itself as a quiet, subdued balanced grey tone — one that floats near the light end of the scale. In practice it works well for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Half Rakaia (#CCC9C8). Nearby in the Register you will also find Quarter Silver Chalice (#C7C8C6) and Half Duck Egg Blue (#C6CCCA).
Technically, #C9C9C9 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 201, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 12.7:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.7:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#C9C9C9 color variations
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#C9C9C9 color tints
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#C9C9C9 color shades
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#C9C9C9 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#C9C9C9 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 #C9C9C9 color
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Nearest named colors to #C9C9C9
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#CCC9C8
#C7C8C6
#C6CCCA
#CACCCC
#CCCCCC
#CECAC8
#C8C4C5
#CCCCC4
#C4CDC7
#CDCDCD
#CCCECE
#C5C5C3
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#C9C9C9
- RGB201, 201, 201
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 21
- CSSrgb(201, 201, 201)
- HSL0°, 0%, 79%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 78.824%
- HSV0°, 0%, 79%
- HSB0°, 0%, 79%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.788
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.788
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.788
- GLSLvec3(0.788, 0.788, 0.788)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.788, 0.788, 0.788, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.788, 0.788, 0.788)
- Percentage of Red in RGB78.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB78.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB78.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDC9C9C9
- DECIMAL ID13224393
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
