#685b6aIt is a dark grayish magenta color having an approximate luminance of 40%. It has a hue value of 292° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Old Lavender, Dark Liver, Deep Taupe, Independence, Eggplant, Granite Gray, Davy's Grey, Dim Gray, Chinese Violet and Liver. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color #685b6a to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (104, 91, 106)
#685b6a
hsl (292, 7.6%, 38.6%)
hsv (292, 14.2%, 41.6%)
lab (40.4, 8.3, -6.6)
xyz (12.1, 11.5, 15.2)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #685b6a 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 magenta color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Taupe Gray, Rocket Metallic, Roman Silver, Mountbatten Pink, Silver (Metallic), Rose Quartz, Heliotrope Gray, Black Shadows, Lavender Gray, Silver, Gray (X11 Gray), Silver Sand, Gainsboro, Platinum, Cultured and Isabelline.
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 magenta color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Dark Liver, Black Coffee, Eggplant, Independence, Jet, Raisin Black, Onyx, Eigengrau, Eerie Black, Smoky Black and Rich Black (FOGRA39).
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 magenta color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Old Lavender, Dark Liver, Granite Gray, Davy's Grey and Dim Gray.
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 and warm colors. There are variants of blue, magenta and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Independence, Dark Liver, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Manatee, Eggplant, Rose Quartz, Heliotrope Gray, Black Shadows 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 magenta and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Lavender, Mountbatten Pink, Kombu Green, Rifle Green, Morning Blue and Laurel Green.
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 magenta, cyan and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Lavender, Mountbatten Pink, Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle 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 magenta, orange, green and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Lavender, Mountbatten Pink, Dark Liver (horses), Dark Lava, Silver Pink, Black Shadows, Kombu Green, Rifle Green, Morning Blue, Laurel Green, Charcoal, Dark Slate Gray, Pewter Blue and Cadet Grey.
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