Information about #7E7E7F color
Basic facts about this digital color
#7E7E7F is a muted, almost neutral grey that carries an easy, daylight feel. It is a natural fit for balanced palettes where no single element should shout. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Meridian (#7C7E7E). Slightly further away sit Silver Lining (#7F7F7D) and Grey (#808080).
In RGB terms — rgb(126, 126, 127) — the blue channel does the heavy lifting here. On this background, black text reaches a 5.2:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 4.1:1. #7E7E7F has no official name yet. If this shade means something to you, you can be the one to name it.
#7E7E7F color variations
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#7E7E7F color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#7E7E7F color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#7E7E7F color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#7E7E7F color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#7E7E7F sits almost exactly at the middle of the lightness scale and carries very little saturation, so the register leaves the Tones strip out: every step of that strip would round back to this same color.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints and shades 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 #7E7E7F color
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Nearest named colors to #7E7E7F
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#7C7E7E
#7F7F7D
#808080
#7D7F7C
#7C817C
#837E7C
#838181
#7C7D79
#808284
#7A7F85
#827F79
#83857F
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#7E7E7F
- RGB126, 126, 127
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 50
- CSSrgb(126, 126, 127)
- HSL240°, 0%, 50%
- HSL Precise240°, 0.395%, 49.608%
- HSV240°, 1%, 50%
- HSB240°, 1%, 50%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.494
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.494
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.498
- GLSLvec3(0.494, 0.494, 0.498)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.494, 0.494, 0.498, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.494, 0.494, 0.498)
- Percentage of Red in RGB49.4%
- Percentage of Green in RGB49.4%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB49.8%
- Color FamilyBlue
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID7E7E7F
- DECIMAL ID8289919
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
