Description and conversion results of color #3f3646

It is a dark grayish violet color having an approximate luminance of 24%. It has a hue value of 274° indicating that this is a cold color.

Some of the most similar colors to this color are Black Coffee, English Violet, Dark Liver, Old Burgundy, Eggplant, Dark Byzantium, Dark Purple, Raisin Black, Jet and Independence. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.

Conversion results

The following list contains the conversion results of color #3f3646 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.

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Similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors

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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.

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Tints, shades and tones

Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #3f3646 respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.

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Tints

These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish violet color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.

This color scale contains similar colors to Old Lavender, Granite Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Liver, Taupe Gray, Roman Silver, Rocket Metallic, Manatee, Silver (Metallic), Silver Chalice, Gray (X11 Gray), Silver, Gainsboro, Platinum, Light Gray and Timberwolf.

Shades

These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish violet color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.

This color scale contains similar colors to Raisin Black, Black Coffee, Eigengrau, Jet, Eerie Black, Smoky Black, Rich Black (FOGRA39) and Black.

Tones

These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish violet color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.

This color scale contains similar colors to Black Coffee, Dark Liver, Jet, Raisin Black, Onyx and Black Olive.

Color schemes and palettes

Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.

We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.

In the following tables these color schemes are present.

Monochromatic

The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.

This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of blue, violet and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Independence, Charcoal, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, Dark Liver, Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz, Eggplant, Dark Byzantium and Lilac Luster.

Complementary

The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.

This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of violet and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Lavender, Rhythm, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green and Ash Gray.

Triadic

The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.

This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of violet, cyan and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Lavender, Rhythm, Dark Slate Gray, MSU Green, Opal, Morning Blue, Taupe, Dark Lava, Grullo and Khaki (Web).

Tetradic

The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.

This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of violet, red, green and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Lavender, Rhythm, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver Pink, Tuscany, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green, Ash Gray, Charcoal, Dark Slate Gray, Pewter Blue and Cadet Grey.

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