#8b979cIt is a grayish azure color having an approximate luminance of 62%. It has a hue value of 198° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cadet Grey, Spanish Gray, Roman Silver, Pewter Blue, Light Slate Gray, Quick Silver, Manatee, Old Silver, Battleship Grey and Silver (Metallic). 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 #8b979c to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (139, 151, 156)
#8b979c
hsl (197.6, 7.9%, 57.8%)
hsv (197.6, 10.9%, 61.2%)
lab (61.7, -3.2, -4.1)
xyz (27.7, 30, 35.8)
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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 #8b979c 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 Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Silver (Metallic), 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 Nickel, Dim Gray, Granite Gray, Sonic Silver, Davy's Grey, Charcoal, Black Coral, Onyx, Jet, Gunmetal, 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, 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 Outer Space (Crayola), Charcoal, Silver Chalice, Cadet Grey, Onyx, Cadet Blue (Crayola) and Silver (Metallic).
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 Nickel, Sonic Silver, Taupe, Dark Lava, Black Shadows and Silver Pink.
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 Nickel, Sonic Silver, Black Olive, Davy's Grey, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Dark Liver, Black Coffee, 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, gray, magenta and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Sonic Silver, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Silver (Metallic), Black Shadows, Taupe, Dark Lava, Silver Pink, Black Olive, Rifle Green, Ash Gray and Silver Chalice.
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