Information about Silver color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted balanced grey tone, #C0C0C0 appears airy and pastel-like. Designers typically reach for tones like this for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Eighth Stack (#C0C1BF). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Silver Sand (#BFC1C2) and French Grey (#BFBDC1).
Technically, #C0C0C0 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 192, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #C0C0C0: 11.5:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.8:1 for white. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Silver" in the Register.
Silver color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
Silver color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Silver color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Silver color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Silver 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 Silver color
View adjacent and very similar colors.
Nearest named colors to Silver
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#C0C1BF
#BFC1C2
#BFBDC1
#BFC0BB
#C3BEBB
#C4C3BC
#BBBDBD
#BABDC1
#C0BFC7
#C5C5C3
#B9C3BE
#C2C5C6
Silver color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#C0C0C0
- RGB192, 192, 192
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 25
- CSSrgb(192, 192, 192)
- HSL0°, 0%, 75%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 75.294%
- HSV0°, 0%, 75%
- HSB0°, 0%, 75%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.753
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.753
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.753
- GLSLvec3(0.753, 0.753, 0.753)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.753, 0.753, 0.753, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.753, 0.753, 0.753)
- Percentage of Red in RGB75.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB75.3%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB75.3%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDC0C0C0
- DECIMAL ID12632256
- Name Length6
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- Counting from2025-01-01
