#686c5eIt is a dark grayish chartreuse green color having an approximate luminance of 45%. It has a hue value of 77° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Ebony, Nickel, Dim Gray, Granite Gray, Feldgrau, Sonic Silver, Xanadu, Davy's Grey, Gray (Web) and Old Silver. 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 #686c5e to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (104, 108, 94)
#686c5e
hsl (77.1, 6.9%, 39.6%)
hsv (77.1, 13%, 42.4%)
lab (44.9, -4.3, 7.3)
xyz (13.1, 14.5, 12.7)
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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 #686c5e 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 chartreuse green color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Middle Grey, Old Silver, Battleship Grey, Spanish Gray, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Ash Gray, Silver, Silver Sand, Gray (X11 Gray), Light Gray, Platinum, Gainsboro, Isabelline and Cultured.
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 chartreuse green color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Ebony, Rifle Green, Davy's Grey, Black Olive, Onyx, Jet, Pine Tree, Charleston Green, Eerie Black, Dark Jungle Green, Smoky Black, Black Chocolate 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 chartreuse green color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Nickel, Dim Gray, Granite Gray, Ebony and Sonic Silver.
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 warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Black Olive, Taupe, Grullo, Silver Chalice, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Ash Gray, Laurel Green and Morning Blue.
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 green and blue colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Xanadu, Dark Liver, Independence, Silver (Metallic) and Manatee.
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 green, red, rose and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Xanadu, Dark Liver, Dark Liver (horses), Black Shadows, Silver Pink, Charcoal, Outer Space (Crayola), Cadet Grey and Pewter Blue.
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 green, cyan, blue and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Xanadu, Dark Slate Gray, Charcoal, Pewter Blue, Cadet Grey, Dark Liver, Independence, Silver (Metallic), Manatee, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver Pink and Black Shadows.
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