Information about American Silver color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted balanced grey tone, #CFCFCF has a delicate, washed-out lightness. Expect to see shades like this in airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Gray Goose (#D1D0CE). Slightly further away sit Midwinter Mist (#CCCECE) and Very Light Grey (#CDCDCD).
Technically, #CFCFCF is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 207, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 13.5:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.6:1. The name "American Silver" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.
American Silver color variations
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American Silver color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
American Silver color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
American Silver color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
American Silver 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 American Silver color
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Nearest named colors to American Silver
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#D1D0CE
#CCCECE
#CDCDCD
#CBD0CF
#D2D1CD
#D2D2CF
#CCD2CE
#CECBD1
#CCCCCC
#D1D3CC
#CED5CF
#D0D5CD
American Silver color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#CFCFCF
- RGB207, 207, 207
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 19
- CSSrgb(207, 207, 207)
- HSL0°, 0%, 81%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 81.176%
- HSV0°, 0%, 81%
- HSB0°, 0%, 81%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.812
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.812
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.812
- GLSLvec3(0.812, 0.812, 0.812)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.812, 0.812, 0.812, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.812, 0.812, 0.812)
- Percentage of Red in RGB81.2%
- Percentage of Green in RGB81.2%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB81.2%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDCFCFCF
- DECIMAL ID13619151
- Name Length15
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- Counting from2025-01-01
