Information about Dim Grey color
Basic facts about this digital color
#545454 is a softly muted balanced grey tone that holds a balanced mid-tone. It is a natural fit for understated, calm designs that favor harmony over drama. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Quarter Foundry (#525557). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Half Baltic Sea (#565657) and Wireless (#555350).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (84 each), placing #545454 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #545454 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 7.6:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 2.8:1. For print, note the heavy black component (K:67) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Dim Grey" in the Register.
Dim Grey color variations
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Dim Grey color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Dim Grey color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Dim Grey color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Dim Grey 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 Grey color
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Nearest named colors to Dim Grey
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#525557
#565657
#555350
#585452
#535359
#535953
#595353
#565051
#585156
#4F5255
#555759
#4E5552
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#545454
- RGB84, 84, 84
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 67
- CSSrgb(84, 84, 84)
- HSL0°, 0%, 33%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 32.941%
- HSV0°, 0%, 33%
- HSB0°, 0%, 33%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.329
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.329
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.329
- GLSLvec3(0.329, 0.329, 0.329)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.329, 0.329, 0.329, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.329, 0.329, 0.329)
- Percentage of Red in RGB32.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB32.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB32.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyNeutral
- HEX ID545454
- DECIMAL ID5526612
- Name Length8
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- Counting from2025-01-01
