Information about #DFDFDF color
Basic facts about this digital color
#DFDFDF presents itself as a muted, almost neutral off-white — one 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 Half Concrete (#E2E1E0). Slightly further away sit Athens Grey (#DCDDDD) and Whitewater (#E1E1DC).
Technically, #DFDFDF is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 223, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 15.8:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.3:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#DFDFDF color variations
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#DFDFDF color tints
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#DFDFDF color shades
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#DFDFDF color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#DFDFDF 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 #DFDFDF color
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Nearest named colors to #DFDFDF
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#E2E1E0
#DCDDDD
#E1E1DC
#E2E3DF
#DCDCDC
#DDDCDB
#E2E1DB
#E0E4DC
#DFDDD9
#E3E3DC
#DBDBDC
#E4E2DC
#DFDFDF color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#DFDFDF
- RGB223, 223, 223
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 13
- CSSrgb(223, 223, 223)
- HSL0°, 0%, 87%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 87.451%
- HSV0°, 0%, 87%
- HSB0°, 0%, 87%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.875
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.875
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.875
- GLSLvec3(0.875, 0.875, 0.875)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.875, 0.875, 0.875, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.875, 0.875, 0.875)
- Percentage of Red in RGB87.5%
- Percentage of Green in RGB87.5%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB87.5%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDDFDFDF
- DECIMAL ID14671839
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
