Information about Metallic Silver color
Basic facts about this digital color
A calm, restrained steel-blue azure, #BCC6CC appears airy and pastel-like. Expect to see shades like this in clean interfaces where content needs room to breathe. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Quarter Powder Blue (#BEC6C8). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Breathless (#C1C8D2) and Triple Athens Grey (#C2C5C6).
In RGB terms — rgb(188, 198, 204) — the blue channel does the heavy lifting here. If you plan to put text on a #BCC6CC background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 12.1:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 1.7:1. The name "Metallic Silver" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.
Metallic Silver color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
Metallic Silver color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Metallic Silver color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Metallic Silver color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Metallic Silver color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
Metallic Silver color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Split complementary
Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.
Tetradic
Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Square
Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.
Alternatives to Metallic Silver color
View adjacent and very similar colors.
Nearest named colors to Metallic Silver
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#BEC6C8
#C1C8D2
#C2C5C6
#BFC8C4
#BBC6D5
#C4C3D0
#C0BFC7
#BCC9C2
#BBD0C9
#BFC1C2
#C4CDC7
#C6CCCA
Metallic Silver color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#BCC6CC
- RGB188, 198, 204
- CMYK6, 2, 0, 20
- CSSrgb(188, 198, 204)
- HSL203°, 14%, 77%
- HSL Precise202.5°, 13.559%, 76.863%
- HSV203°, 8%, 80%
- HSB203°, 8%, 80%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.737
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.776
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.800
- GLSLvec3(0.737, 0.776, 0.800)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.737, 0.776, 0.800, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.737, 0.776, 0.800)
- Percentage of Red in RGB73.7%
- Percentage of Green in RGB77.6%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB80%
- Color FamilyAzure
- Saturation FamilyLow Saturation
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDBCC6CC
- DECIMAL ID12371660
- Name Length15
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