Information about #B4B4B4 color

#B4B4B4 color image

Basic facts about this digital color

In the Register's classification, #B4B4B4 belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, featuring Desaturated and Very Light brightness. In numbers: rgb(180, 180, 180) (70.6% red, 70.6% green, 70.6% blue), or CMYK 0 / 0 / 0 / 29 for print. Curious how these numbers work? Read our RGB color codes guide.

A muted, almost neutral neutral grey, #B4B4B4 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 practically indistinguishable from Philippine Silver (#B3B3B3). Nearby in the Register you will also find Gray Cloud (#B6B6B4) and Triple Concrete (#B7B6B5).

Technically, #B4B4B4 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 180, which is what makes it a true neutral. If you plan to put text on a #B4B4B4 background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 10.1:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 2.1:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.

#B4B4B4 color variations

View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.

Why this page shows fewer blocks

#B4B4B4 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

Nearest named colors to #B4B4B4

The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.

Conversions between color systems and etc.

  • HEX#B4B4B4
  • RGB180, 180, 180
  • CMYK0, 0, 0, 29
  • CSSrgb(180, 180, 180)
  • HSL0°, 0%, 71%
  • HSL Precise0°, 0%, 70.588%
  • HSV0°, 0%, 71%
  • HSB0°, 0%, 71%
  • Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.706
  • Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.706
  • Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.706
  • GLSLvec3(0.706, 0.706, 0.706)
  • GLSL with alphavec4(0.706, 0.706, 0.706, 1.000)
  • HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.706, 0.706, 0.706)
  • Percentage of Red in RGB70.6%
  • Percentage of Green in RGB70.6%
  • Percentage of Blue in RGB70.6%
  • Color FamilyGreyscale
  • Saturation FamilyDesaturated
  • Lightness FamilyVery Light
  • HEX IDB4B4B4
  • DECIMAL ID11842740
  • Name LengthThis color has no name
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  • Counting from2025-01-01