Description and conversion results of color #8c6e6a

It is a grayish red color having an approximate luminance of 49%. It has a hue value of 7° indicating that this is a warm color.

Some of the most similar colors to this color are Burnished Brown, Copper Rose, Deep Taupe, Cinereous, Blast-off Bronze, Rose Taupe, Rocket Metallic, Copper Penny, Beaver and Raspberry Glace. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.

Conversion results

The following list contains the conversion results of color #8c6e6a to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.

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Similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors

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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.

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Tints, shades and tones

Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #8c6e6a 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 red color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.

This color scale contains similar colors to Cinereous, Tuscany, Rosy Brown, Beaver, Silver Pink, Black Shadows, Silver (Crayola), Pale Silver, Timberwolf, Light Gray, Platinum, Isabelline, Snow 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 grayish red color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.

This color scale contains similar colors to Liver, Rose Ebony, Umber, Deep Taupe, Dark Liver (horses), Old Burgundy, Black Coffee, Dark Lava, Raisin Black, Jet, Smoky Black, Eerie Black and Black Chocolate.

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 red color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.

This color scale contains similar colors to Cinereous, Deep Taupe, Rocket Metallic, Burnished Brown, Sonic Silver, Dim Gray, Gray (Web) and Nickel.

Color schemes and palettes

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 colors. There are variants of rose, red and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Eggplant, Rose Ebony, Tuscany, Silver Pink, Dark Liver (horses), Taupe, Dark Lava and Grullo.

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 warm and cold colors. There are variants of red and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnished Brown, Copper Rose, Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue and Opal.

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 warm and cold colors. There are variants of red, azure and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnished Brown, Copper Rose, Charcoal, Independence, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, Kombu Green, Rifle Green, Cambridge Blue and Morning 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 warm and cold colors. There are variants of red, green, cyan and violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnished Brown, Copper Rose, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green, Ash Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue, Opal, Independence, English Violet, Rose Quartz and Heliotrope Gray.

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