Gainsboro

The color named Gainsboro is named after the town of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. The town was an important center of the textile industry, and the color was used to describe a light gray-blue hue that was popular for use in clothing and linens. The exact shade of the color has changed over time, but it continues to be associated with the town and the textile industry that was once so important there.

The digital color HEX #DCDCDC, known as "Gainsboro", belongs to the Red Color Family featuring Desaturated (Saturation Family) and Luminous (Brightness Family).

HEX code #DCDCDC represent the color in hexadecimal format by combining three values – the amounts of Red, Green and Blue (RGB). Its RGB composition is 220, 220, 220 ( rgb(220, 220, 220) ), which breaks down into 86.3% of Red, 86.3% Green and 86.3% Blue.

For printing in non digital world, #DCDCDC is represented in CMYK as 0 Cyan, 0 Magenta, 0 Yellow, and 14 Black (Key) (C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:14).