Information about Dark Charcoal color
Basic facts about this digital color
A quiet, subdued grey, #333333 carries a shadowy depth. Expect to see shades like this in moody backdrops, typography on light surfaces and premium packaging. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Jet (#343434). Nearby in the Register you will also find Half Bokara Grey (#353333) and Bright Charcoal (#333435).
Technically, #333333 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 51, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, white text reaches a 12.6:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); black stays at 1.7:1. For print, note the heavy black component (K:80) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Dark Charcoal" in the Register.
Dark Charcoal color variations
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Dark Charcoal color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Dark Charcoal color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Dark Charcoal color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Dark Charcoal 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 Dark Charcoal color
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Nearest named colors to Dark Charcoal
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#343434
#353333
#333435
#333633
#333436
#323436
#353131
#313436
#323136
#373332
#313337
#2F3131
Dark Charcoal color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#333333
- RGB51, 51, 51
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 80
- CSSrgb(51, 51, 51)
- HSL0°, 0%, 20%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 20%
- HSV0°, 0%, 20%
- HSB0°, 0%, 20%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.200
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.200
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.200
- GLSLvec3(0.200, 0.200, 0.200)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.200, 0.200, 0.200, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.200, 0.200, 0.200)
- Percentage of Red in RGB20%
- Percentage of Green in RGB20%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB20%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyDark
- HEX ID333333
- DECIMAL ID3355443
- Name Length13
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