Information about #A3A3A3 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #A3A3A3 reads as a muted, almost neutral neutral grey and has a delicate, washed-out lightness. Designers typically reach for tones like this for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from stung (#A69FA4). Slightly further away sit Quick Silver (#A6A6A6) and Grey Chateau (#9FA3A7).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (163 each), placing #A3A3A3 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. On this background, black text reaches a 8.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 2.5:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#A3A3A3 color variations
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#A3A3A3 color tints
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#A3A3A3 color shades
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#A3A3A3 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#A3A3A3 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 #A3A3A3 color
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Nearest named colors to #A3A3A3
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#A69FA4
#A6A6A6
#9FA3A7
#9EA0A1
#A9A5A5
#9FA19E
#A3A49C
#A7A69D
#A9A7A0
#A1A9A8
#A09F9C
#A7A69C
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#A3A3A3
- RGB163, 163, 163
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 36
- CSSrgb(163, 163, 163)
- HSL0°, 0%, 64%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 63.922%
- HSV0°, 0%, 64%
- HSB0°, 0%, 64%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.639
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.639
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.639
- GLSLvec3(0.639, 0.639, 0.639)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.639, 0.639, 0.639, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.639, 0.639, 0.639)
- Percentage of Red in RGB63.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB63.9%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB63.9%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDA3A3A3
- DECIMAL ID10724259
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers363 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
