Information about Alto color
Basic facts about this digital color
#DBDBDB presents itself as a muted, almost neutral off-white — one that glows at the very top of the lightness scale. In practice it works well for clean interfaces where content needs room to breathe. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Pastel Silver (#DBDBDC). Nearby in the Register you will also find Gainsboro (#DCDCDC) and Porcelain (#DDDCDB).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (219 each), placing #DBDBDB exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #DBDBDB background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 15.2:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 1.4:1. The name "Alto" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.
Alto color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
Alto color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Alto color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Alto color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Alto 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 Alto color
View adjacent and very similar colors.
Nearest named colors to Alto
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#DBDBDC
#DCDCDC
#DDDCDB
#DCDDDD
#DFDDD9
#D8D8D8
#DAD7DF
#D8DCD6
#D6D8D8
#D9DDD5
#D8DCD5
#DCD5DE
Alto color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#DBDBDB
- RGB219, 219, 219
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 14
- CSSrgb(219, 219, 219)
- HSL0°, 0%, 86%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 85.882%
- HSV0°, 0%, 86%
- HSB0°, 0%, 86%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.859
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.859
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.859
- GLSLvec3(0.859, 0.859, 0.859)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.859, 0.859, 0.859, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.859, 0.859, 0.859)
- Percentage of Red in RGB85.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB85.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB85.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDDBDBDB
- DECIMAL ID14408667
- Name Length4
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