#8b8a99It is a grayish blue color having an approximate luminance of 58%. It has a hue value of 244° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Roman Silver, Cool Grey, Manatee, Taupe Gray, Rocket Metallic, Light Slate Gray, Gray (Web), Spanish Gray, Shadow Blue and Heliotrope Gray. 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 #8b8a99 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (139, 138, 153)
#8b8a99
hsl (244, 6.8%, 57.1%)
hsv (244, 9.8%, 60%)
lab (58, 3.4, -7.8)
xyz (25.5, 26, 33.8)
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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 #8b8a99 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 blue color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Silver (Metallic), Manatee, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Quick Silver, Lavender Gray, Silver Sand, Gray (X11 Gray), Silver, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Platinum, Cultured, Ghost White 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 grayish blue color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Granite Gray, Dim Gray, Black Coral, Old Lavender, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Charcoal, Onyx, Jet, Raisin Black, Gunmetal, Eerie Black, Eigengrau and Smoky 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 grayish blue 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, Taupe Gray, Manatee, Cool Grey, Gray (Web), Spanish Gray, 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 azure, blue and magenta colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Charcoal, Gunmetal, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Cadet Grey, Dark Liver, Independence, Manatee, Black Coffee, 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 colors. There are variants of blue and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Sonic Silver, Rifle Green, Black Olive, Ash Gray and Silver Chalice.
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 blue, green and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Sonic Silver, Dark Slate Gray, Feldgrau, Morning Blue, Opal, Dark Lava, Taupe, Silver Pink and Black Shadows.
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 blue, red, yellow and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Sonic Silver, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver Pink, Black Shadows, Rifle Green, Black Olive, Ash Gray, Silver Chalice, Dark Slate Gray, Charcoal, Pewter Blue and Opal.
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