Information about #C3C3C3 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #C3C3C3 reads as a softly muted neutral grey and appears airy and pastel-like. Designers typically reach for tones like this for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Double Concrete (#C5C5C3). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Triple Athens Grey (#C2C5C6) and Silver Sand (#BFC1C2).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (195 each), placing #C3C3C3 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #C3C3C3: 11.9:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.8:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#C3C3C3 color variations
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#C3C3C3 color tints
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#C3C3C3 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#C3C3C3 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#C3C3C3 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 #C3C3C3 color
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Nearest named colors to #C3C3C3
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#C5C5C3
#C2C5C6
#BFC1C2
#C0C0C0
#C0C1BF
#C8C4C5
#C8C4C0
#C0BFC7
#BFC8C4
#C4C3BC
#C7C8C6
#BFBDC1
#C3C3C3 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#C3C3C3
- RGB195, 195, 195
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 24
- CSSrgb(195, 195, 195)
- HSL0°, 0%, 76%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 76.471%
- HSV0°, 0%, 76%
- HSB0°, 0%, 76%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.765
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.765
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.765
- GLSLvec3(0.765, 0.765, 0.765)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.765, 0.765, 0.765, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.765, 0.765, 0.765)
- Percentage of Red in RGB76.5%
- Percentage of Green in RGB76.5%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB76.5%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDC3C3C3
- DECIMAL ID12829635
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers31 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
