Information about #E3E3E3 color
Basic facts about this digital color
#E3E3E3 is a softly muted whisper-light 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 Platinum (#E5E4E2). Slightly further away sit Half Concrete (#E2E1E0) and Half House White (#E2E3DF).
Technically, #E3E3E3 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 227, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 16.4:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.3:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#E3E3E3 color variations
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#E3E3E3 color tints
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#E3E3E3 color shades
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#E3E3E3 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#E3E3E3 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 #E3E3E3 color
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Nearest named colors to #E3E3E3
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#E5E4E2
#E2E1E0
#E2E3DF
#E4E4DF
#E7E2E4
#E1E8E3
#E2E5DE
#E8E5E0
#E6DFE7
#E4DEE7
#E7E4DE
#E7E5E8
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#E3E3E3
- RGB227, 227, 227
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 11
- CSSrgb(227, 227, 227)
- HSL0°, 0%, 89%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 89.02%
- HSV0°, 0%, 89%
- HSB0°, 0%, 89%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.890
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.890
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.890
- GLSLvec3(0.890, 0.890, 0.890)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.890, 0.890, 0.890, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.890, 0.890, 0.890)
- Percentage of Red in RGB89%
- Percentage of Green in RGB89%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB89%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDE3E3E3
- DECIMAL ID14935011
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
