#a9a9a9
darkgray / darkgrey
Color values Color notations — HEX (hexadecimal), RGB (light primaries), HSL (hue/saturation/lightness), CMYK (print inks, approximate).
- HEX
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#a9a9a9 - RGB
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rgb(169, 169, 169) - HSL
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hsl(0, 0%, 66%) - OKLCH
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oklch(73.5% 0 0) - CMYK
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0% 0% 0% 34%
- Relative luminance Relative luminance: a color's brightness from 0 (black) to 1 (white). It is used to compute WCAG contrast.
- 0.3968
- Hue Hue: the kind of a color (red, orange, yellow…). We group the hue wheel into 12 sectors.
- Achromatic
- CSS color name
- darkgray / darkgrey
Contrast
| Ratio Contrast ratio: the brightness difference between two colors, from 1:1 to 21:1. Higher is easier to read. | APCA (Lc) APCA: a newer perceptual contrast measure from the WCAG 3 draft. Lc runs about 0–106; higher is easier to read. The sign shows polarity (dark text on light, or light on dark). | |
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| As background | ||
| White text | 2.35:1 | -51 |
| Black text | 8.94:1 | 58 |
| As text | ||
| White background | 2.35:1 | 46 |
| Black background | 8.94:1 | -56 |
Color harmonies
Shades & tints Shades & tints: lighter steps mixed toward white (tints) and darker steps mixed toward black (shades).
Impressions Impression: a tag for the mood a color evokes — warm, calm, vivid and so on.
Usage preview
As background (black text)
As background (white text)
As text (white background)
As text (black background)
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