Information about Dim Gray color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #696969 reads as a muted, almost neutral neutral grey and sits on the lighter side of the spectrum. Designers typically reach for tones like this for understated, calm designs that favor harmony over drama. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Granite Gray (#676767). Nearby in the Register you will also find Scarpa Flow (#6B6A6C) and Cloudy Gray (#6D6968).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (105 each), placing #696969 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #696969 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 5.5:1 (passing WCAG AA), while black manages only 3.8:1. The name "Dim Gray" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.
Dim Gray color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
Dim Gray color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Dim Gray color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Dim Gray color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Dim Gray 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 Dim Gray color
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Nearest named colors to Dim Gray
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#676767
#6B6A6C
#6D6968
#686765
#666A6D
#6C6D68
#6E6767
#6A6466
#6F676C
#656664
#696268
#6C6E6D
Dim Gray color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#696969
- RGB105, 105, 105
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 59
- CSSrgb(105, 105, 105)
- HSL0°, 0%, 41%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 41.176%
- HSV0°, 0%, 41%
- HSB0°, 0%, 41%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.412
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.412
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.412
- GLSLvec3(0.412, 0.412, 0.412)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.412, 0.412, 0.412, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.412, 0.412, 0.412)
- Percentage of Red in RGB41.2%
- Percentage of Green in RGB41.2%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB41.2%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID696969
- DECIMAL ID6908265
- Name Length8
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