Information about #CECECE color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #CECECE reads as a softly muted neutral grey and has a delicate, washed-out lightness. Expect to see shades like this in airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Very Light Grey (#CDCDCD). Slightly further away sit American Silver (#CFCFCF) and Midwinter Mist (#CCCECE).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (206 each), placing #CECECE exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. On this background, black text reaches a 13.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.6:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#CECECE color variations
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#CECECE color tints
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#CECECE color shades
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#CECECE color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#CECECE 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 #CECECE color
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Nearest named colors to #CECECE
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#CDCDCD
#CFCFCF
#CCCECE
#CCCCCC
#D1D0CE
#CBD0CF
#CECBD1
#CCD2CE
#CACCCC
#D2D1CD
#D2D2CF
#D1D3CC
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#CECECE
- RGB206, 206, 206
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 19
- CSSrgb(206, 206, 206)
- HSL0°, 0%, 81%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 80.784%
- HSV0°, 0%, 81%
- HSB0°, 0%, 81%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.808
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.808
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.808
- GLSLvec3(0.808, 0.808, 0.808)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.808, 0.808, 0.808, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.808, 0.808, 0.808)
- Percentage of Red in RGB80.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB80.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB80.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDCECECE
- DECIMAL ID13553358
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
