Information about Philippine Gray color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #8C8C8C reads as a softly muted neutral grey and feels open and friendly. Designers typically reach for tones like this for versatile mid-ground roles, from cards to secondary buttons. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Fashion Gray (#8E8D8C). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Avatar (#8B8F8E) and Stack (#8A8F8A).
Technically, #8C8C8C is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 140, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #8C8C8C: 6.2:1 contrast (passing WCAG AA) versus 3.4:1 for white. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Philippine Gray" in the Register.
Philippine Gray color variations
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Philippine Gray color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Philippine Gray color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Philippine Gray color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Philippine 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 Philippine Gray color
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Nearest named colors to Philippine Gray
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#8E8D8C
#8B8F8E
#8A8F8A
#8B8A88
#8E918F
#8B8589
#8A8984
#8D9094
#848E88
#888A84
#878786
#8B8685
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#8C8C8C
- RGB140, 140, 140
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 45
- CSSrgb(140, 140, 140)
- HSL0°, 0%, 55%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 54.902%
- HSV0°, 0%, 55%
- HSB0°, 0%, 55%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.549
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.549
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.549
- GLSLvec3(0.549, 0.549, 0.549)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.549, 0.549, 0.549, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.549, 0.549, 0.549)
- Percentage of Red in RGB54.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB54.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB54.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID8C8C8C
- DECIMAL ID9211020
- Name Length15
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- Counting from2025-01-01
