Information about #D9D9D9 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A muted, almost neutral near-white neutral, #D9D9D9 glows at the very top of the lightness scale. Expect to see shades like this in airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Light Silver (#D8D8D8). Nearby in the Register you will also find Quarter Surrender (#D6D8D8) and Alto (#DBDBDB).
Technically, #D9D9D9 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 217, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 14.9:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.4:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#D9D9D9 color variations
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#D9D9D9 color tints
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#D9D9D9 color shades
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#D9D9D9 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#D9D9D9 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 #D9D9D9 color
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Nearest named colors to #D9D9D9
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#D8D8D8
#D6D8D8
#DBDBDB
#DBDBDC
#D8DCD6
#D5D7D8
#D8DCD5
#D6D6D6
#DCDCDC
#DDDCDB
#D9DDD5
#DAD7DF
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#D9D9D9
- RGB217, 217, 217
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 15
- CSSrgb(217, 217, 217)
- HSL0°, 0%, 85%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 85.098%
- HSV0°, 0%, 85%
- HSB0°, 0%, 85%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.851
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.851
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.851
- GLSLvec3(0.851, 0.851, 0.851)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.851, 0.851, 0.851, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.851, 0.851, 0.851)
- Percentage of Red in RGB85.1%
- Percentage of Green in RGB85.1%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB85.1%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDD9D9D9
- DECIMAL ID14277081
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
