#a9afadIt is a bright gray color having an approximate luminance of 71%. It has a hue value of 160° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Silver (Metallic), Gray (X11 Gray), Ash Gray, Silver Sand, Silver, Spanish Gray, Cadet Grey and Morning 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 #a9afad to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (169, 175, 173)
#a9afad
hsl (160, 3.6%, 67.5%)
hsv (160, 3.4%, 68.6%)
lab (70.9, -2.5, 0.3)
xyz (39.2, 42.1, 45.6)
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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 #a9afad 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 gray 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 Sand, Silver, Gray (X11 Gray), Ash Gray, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Timberwolf, Platinum, Cultured, White, Isabelline and Baby Powder.
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 gray 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), Battleship Grey, Old Silver, Nickel, Davy's Grey, Granite Gray, 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 gray 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 Chalice, Quick Silver, Silver (Metallic) 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.
There are variants of the gray color in the above items, which contain similar colors to Black Olive, Onyx, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver and Charcoal.
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.
There are variants of the gray color in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Sonic Silver, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Silver (Metallic) and Silver Chalice.
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 gray and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Sonic Silver, Dark Liver, Dark Lava, Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Davy's Grey and Silver (Metallic).
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.
There are variants of the gray color in the above items, which contain similar colors to Nickel, Sonic Silver, Onyx, Charcoal, Silver (Metallic), Silver Chalice, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Black Olive and Quick Silver.
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