Information about #DDDDDD color
Basic facts about this digital color
#DDDDDD is a muted, almost neutral near-white neutral that radiates an almost-white brightness. In practice it works well for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Athens Grey (#DCDDDD). Slightly further away sit Gainsboro (#DCDCDC) and Porcelain (#DDDCDB).
Technically, #DDDDDD is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 221, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 15.5:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.4:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#DDDDDD color variations
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#DDDDDD color tints
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#DDDDDD color shades
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#DDDDDD color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#DDDDDD 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 #DDDDDD color
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Nearest named colors to #DDDDDD
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#DCDDDD
#DCDCDC
#DDDCDB
#DBDBDC
#DBDBDB
#DFDDD9
#E1E1DC
#E2E1DB
#DAD7DF
#E2E1E0
#E2DED8
#E3DFD9
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#DDDDDD
- RGB221, 221, 221
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 13
- CSSrgb(221, 221, 221)
- HSL0°, 0%, 87%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 86.667%
- HSV0°, 0%, 87%
- HSB0°, 0%, 87%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.867
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.867
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.867
- GLSLvec3(0.867, 0.867, 0.867)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.867, 0.867, 0.867, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.867, 0.867, 0.867)
- Percentage of Red in RGB86.7%
- Percentage of Green in RGB86.7%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB86.7%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDDDDDDD
- DECIMAL ID14540253
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
