Information about #DEDEDE color
Basic facts about this digital color
#DEDEDE is a muted, almost neutral near-white neutral that radiates an almost-white brightness. In practice it works well for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Athens Grey (#DCDDDD). Slightly further away sit Gainsboro (#DCDCDC) and Porcelain (#DDDCDB).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (222 each), placing #DEDEDE exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. On this background, black text reaches a 15.6:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.3:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#DEDEDE color variations
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#DEDEDE color tints
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#DEDEDE color shades
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#DEDEDE color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#DEDEDE 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 #DEDEDE color
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Nearest named colors to #DEDEDE
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#DCDDDD
#DCDCDC
#DDDCDB
#E1E1DC
#DBDBDC
#DBDBDB
#DFDDD9
#E2E1E0
#E2E1DB
#E2E3DF
#E0E4DC
#E3DFD9
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#DEDEDE
- RGB222, 222, 222
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 13
- CSSrgb(222, 222, 222)
- HSL0°, 0%, 87%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 87.059%
- HSV0°, 0%, 87%
- HSB0°, 0%, 87%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.871
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.871
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.871
- GLSLvec3(0.871, 0.871, 0.871)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.871, 0.871, 0.871, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.871, 0.871, 0.871)
- Percentage of Red in RGB87.1%
- Percentage of Green in RGB87.1%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB87.1%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDDEDEDE
- DECIMAL ID14606046
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers359 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
