#87979dIt is a grayish azure color having an approximate luminance of 61%. It has a hue value of 196° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cadet Grey, Pewter Blue, Spanish Gray, Light Slate Gray, Roman Silver, Quick Silver, Manatee, Morning Blue, Old Silver and Battleship Grey. 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 #87979d to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (135, 151, 157)
#87979d
hsl (196.4, 10.1%, 57.3%)
hsv (196.4, 14%, 61.6%)
lab (61.4, -4.4, -5.1)
xyz (27.1, 29.7, 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 #87979d 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 Cadet Grey, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Pewter Blue, Silver Sand, Silver, Gray (X11 Gray), Light Gray, Gainsboro, Platinum, Timberwolf, Cultured, Isabelline and White.
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 Cadet, Nickel, Dim Gray, Granite Gray, Davy's Grey, Charcoal, Black Coral, Onyx, Gunmetal, Jet, Outer Space (Crayola), Eerie Black, 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 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 Spanish Gray, Cadet Grey, Roman Silver, Light Slate Gray, Quick Silver, Battleship Grey and Old 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 cold colors. There are variants of cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Slate Gray, Outer Space (Crayola), Morning Blue, Ash Gray, Charcoal, Cadet Grey, Pewter Blue, Onyx and Cadet Blue (Crayola).
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 orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Slate Gray, Nickel, Dark Lava, Taupe, Silver Pink and Black Shadows.
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, yellow and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Slate Gray, Nickel, Black Olive, Rifle Green, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Dark Liver, Dark Liver (horses), Black Shadows 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, magenta, orange and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Slate Gray, Nickel, Dark Liver, Black Coffee, Black Shadows, Silver (Metallic), Dark Lava, Taupe, Silver Pink, Rifle Green, Black Olive, Ash Gray and Morning Blue.
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