#a8b8b6It is a bright grayish cyan color having an approximate luminance of 74%. It has a hue value of 173° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Ash Gray, Opal, Silver Sand, Silver Chalice, Gray (X11 Gray), Silver, Morning Blue, Quick Silver, Cambridge Blue and Pewter Blue. 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 #a8b8b6 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (168, 184, 182)
#a8b8b6
hsl (172.5, 10.1%, 69%)
hsv (172.5, 8.7%, 72.2%)
lab (73.5, -5.9, -0.9)
xyz (41.7, 46, 50.9)
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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 #a8b8b6 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 cyan color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Ash Gray, Silver Sand, Silver, Gray (X11 Gray), Light Gray, Gainsboro, Platinum, Timberwolf, Cultured, Baby Powder, 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 bright grayish cyan color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Battleship Grey, Old Silver, Gray (Web), Xanadu, Granite Gray, Davy's Grey, Dim Gray, Ebony, Onyx, Jet, Black Olive, Outer Space (Crayola), Eerie Black, Raisin Black, Black Chocolate 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 cyan color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Ash Gray, Silver Sand, Silver Chalice, Opal, Gray (X11 Gray) and 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 green and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Black Olive, Kombu Green, Ash Gray, Morning Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Outer Space (Crayola), Charcoal, Cadet Grey and Pewter Blue.
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 cyan and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Xanadu, Dark Liver, Dark Liver (horses), 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 cyan, orange and violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Xanadu, Dark Lava, Taupe, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Silver (Metallic) 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 cyan, azure, blue, red and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Xanadu, Charcoal, Dark Liver, Silver (Metallic), Cadet Blue (Crayola), Dark Liver (horses), Black Shadows, Silver Pink, Black Olive, Dark Lava, Silver Chalice and Quick Silver.
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