Information about Aluminum color
Basic facts about this digital color
#D6D6D6 is a softly muted balanced grey tone that appears airy and pastel-like. It is a natural fit for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from White Thunder (#D5D7D8). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Quarter Surrender (#D6D8D8) and Quarter Rakaia (#D7D6D3).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (214 each), placing #D6D6D6 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #D6D6D6: 14.4:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.5:1 for white. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Aluminum" in the Register.
Aluminum color variations
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Aluminum color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Aluminum color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Aluminum color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Aluminum 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 Aluminum color
View adjacent and very similar colors.
Nearest named colors to Aluminum
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#D5D7D8
#D6D8D8
#D7D6D3
#D8D8D8
#D3D6D8
#D3D3D3
#D9D5D1
#D8DCD6
#D8DCD5
#D5D2D1
#DBD7D2
#D2D9DB
Aluminum color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#D6D6D6
- RGB214, 214, 214
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 16
- CSSrgb(214, 214, 214)
- HSL0°, 0%, 84%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 83.922%
- HSV0°, 0%, 84%
- HSB0°, 0%, 84%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.839
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.839
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.839
- GLSLvec3(0.839, 0.839, 0.839)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.839, 0.839, 0.839, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.839, 0.839, 0.839)
- Percentage of Red in RGB83.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB83.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB83.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDD6D6D6
- DECIMAL ID14079702
- Name Length8
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