#a6a1b8It is a bright grayish blue color having an approximate luminance of 67%. It has a hue value of 253° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Manatee, Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz, Lilac Luster, Cool Grey, Blue Bell, Wild Blue Yonder, Glossy Grape, Cadet Blue (Crayola) 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 #a6a1b8 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (166, 161, 184)
#a6a1b8
hsl (253, 13.9%, 67.6%)
hsv (253, 12.5%, 72.2%)
lab (67.3, 6.3, -11.2)
xyz (37.1, 37.1, 50.5)
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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 #a6a1b8 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 bright 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 Lavender Gray, Languid Lavender, Light Periwinkle, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Periwinkle (Crayola), Gainsboro, Light Gray, Lavender (Web), Platinum, Ghost White, Cultured, Snow 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 bright 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 Rhythm, Old Lavender, Taupe Gray, Roman Silver, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Independence, Granite Gray, Jet, Onyx, Gunmetal, Black Coffee, Eerie Black, Raisin 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 bright 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 Manatee, Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz, Silver (Metallic), Quick Silver, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Silver Chalice and Spanish Gray.
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, Independence, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, Dark Liver, Manatee, Rose Quartz, Eggplant, English Violet and Lilac Luster.
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 green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Old Lavender, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green and Ash Gray.
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, cyan and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Old Lavender, Dark Slate Gray, MSU Green, Morning Blue, Opal, Taupe, Dark Lava, Grullo 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 blue, red, green and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Old Lavender, Dark Liver (horses), Rose Ebony, Tuscany, Silver Pink, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green, Ash Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue and Opal.
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