Information about Very Light Grey color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #CDCDCD reads as a muted, almost neutral grey and floats near the light end of the scale. Expect to see shades like this in clean interfaces where content needs room to breathe. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Chinese Silver (#CCCCCC). Nearby in the Register you will also find Midwinter Mist (#CCCECE) and Half Surrender (#CACCCC).
Technically, #CDCDCD is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 205, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #CDCDCD background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 13.2:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 1.6:1. The name "Very Light Grey" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.
Very Light Grey color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
Very Light Grey color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Very Light Grey color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Very Light Grey color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Very Light 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 Very Light Grey color
View adjacent and very similar colors.
Nearest named colors to Very Light Grey
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#CCCCCC
#CCCECE
#CACCCC
#CFCFCF
#CBD0CF
#CECBD1
#D1D0CE
#CCD2CE
#CECAC8
#D2D1CD
#CCC9C8
#D1D3CC
Very Light Grey color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#CDCDCD
- RGB205, 205, 205
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 20
- CSSrgb(205, 205, 205)
- HSL0°, 0%, 80%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 80.392%
- HSV0°, 0%, 80%
- HSB0°, 0%, 80%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.804
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.804
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.804
- GLSLvec3(0.804, 0.804, 0.804)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.804, 0.804, 0.804, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.804, 0.804, 0.804)
- Percentage of Red in RGB80.4%
- Percentage of Green in RGB80.4%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB80.4%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDCDCDCD
- DECIMAL ID13487565
- Name Length15
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- Counting from2025-01-01
