#a9abb7It is a bright grayish blue color having an approximate luminance of 70%. It has a hue value of 231° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cadet Blue (Crayola), Silver (Metallic), Manatee, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Lavender Gray, Cadet Grey, Gray (X11 Gray), Silver Sand and Silver. 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 #a9abb7 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (169, 171, 183)
#a9abb7
hsl (231.4, 8.9%, 69%)
hsv (231.4, 7.7%, 71.8%)
lab (70.2, 1.6, -6.4)
xyz (39.5, 41, 50.6)
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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 #a9abb7 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, Silver Sand, Silver, Gray (X11 Gray), Light Gray, Gainsboro, Platinum, Cultured, 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 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 Gray (Web), Roman Silver, Sonic Silver, Taupe Gray, Davy's Grey, Granite Gray, Black Coral, Dim Gray, Onyx, Jet, Gunmetal, Outer Space (Crayola), 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 Silver (Metallic), Cadet Blue (Crayola), Silver Chalice, Quick Silver and Gray (X11 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 violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Charcoal, Onyx, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Cadet Grey, Dark Liver, Silver (Metallic), Davy's Grey and Black Shadows.
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 blue and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Sonic Silver, Slate Gray, Black Olive, Taupe, Silver Chalice and Quick Silver.
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 Sonic Silver, Slate Gray, Black Olive, Dark Slate Gray, Ash Gray, Morning Blue, 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 Sonic Silver, Slate Gray, Dark Liver, Dark Liver (horses), Black Shadows, Silver Pink, Black Olive, Taupe, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Dark Slate Gray, Outer Space (Crayola), Morning Blue and Ash Gray.
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