#7e879fIt is a grayish azure color having an approximate luminance of 56%. It has a hue value of 224° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Shadow Blue, Cool Grey, Roman Silver, Light Slate Gray, Slate Gray, Manatee, Rhythm, Glaucous, Taupe Gray and Gray (Web). 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 #7e879f to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (126, 135, 159)
#7e879f
hsl (223.6, 14.7%, 55.9%)
hsv (223.6, 20.8%, 62.4%)
lab (56.4, 2.1, -13.9)
xyz (23.5, 24.3, 36.2)
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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 #7e879f 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 grayish azure color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Manatee, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Cool Grey, Wild Blue Yonder, Lavender Gray, Light Periwinkle, Periwinkle (Crayola), Light Gray, Gainsboro, Cultured, Ghost White, Alice Blue and Platinum.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish azure color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Black Coral, Dark Electric Blue, Payne's Grey, Independence, Charcoal, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Jet, Onyx, Gunmetal, Raisin Black, Eerie Black, Eigengrau and Rich Black (FOGRA29).
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish azure color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Roman Silver, Light Slate Gray, Shadow Blue, Cool Grey, Slate Gray, Taupe Gray, Gray (Web), Old Silver and Battleship Grey.
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 azure and violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Charcoal, Indigo Dye, Pewter Blue, Cadet Grey, Independence, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, English Violet, Heliotrope Gray and Rose Quartz.
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 and warm colors. There are variants of azure and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Slate Gray, Olive Drab 7, Rifle Green, Khaki (Web) and Sage.
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 azure, green and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Slate Gray, Kombu Green, English Green, Cambridge Blue, Morning Blue, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Tuscany and Silver Pink.
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 azure, red, yellow and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Slate Gray, Eggplant, Rose Ebony, Tuscany, Silver Pink, Olive Drab 7, Rifle Green, Khaki (Web), Sage, Dark Slate Gray, Deep Jungle Green, Opal and Morning Blue.
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