#aa979cIt is a bright grayish rose color having an approximate luminance of 64%. It has a hue value of 344° indicating that this is a warm color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz, Lilac Luster, Black Shadows, Tuscany, Silver Pink, Rosy Brown, Taupe Gray, Silver (Metallic) and Cinereous. 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 #aa979c to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (170, 151, 156)
#aa979c
hsl (344.2, 10.1%, 62.9%)
hsv (344.2, 11.2%, 66.7%)
lab (64.2, 7.9, -0.1)
xyz (33.6, 33.1, 36.1)
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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 #aa979c 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 rose color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Black Shadows, Silver Pink, Pale Silver, Silver (Crayola), Lavender Gray, Gainsboro, Light Gray, Timberwolf, Platinum, Cultured, Isabelline and Snow.
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 rose color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Rocket Metallic, Old Lavender, Sonic Silver, Dim Gray, Dark Liver, Davy's Grey, Umber, Liver, Jet, Black Coffee, Onyx, Raisin Black, Eerie Black, Smoky 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 bright grayish rose color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz, Black Shadows, Lilac Luster, Spanish Gray, Silver (Metallic), Quick Silver, Taupe Gray and Silver Chalice.
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 and warm colors. There are variants of magenta and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Liver, Black Coffee, Black Shadows, Rose Quartz, Dark Liver (horses) and Silver Pink.
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 rose and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rocket Metallic, Old Lavender, Dark Slate Gray, Feldgrau, Morning 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 rose, azure and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rocket Metallic, Old Lavender, Charcoal, Outer Space (Crayola), Cadet Grey, Pewter Blue, Rifle Green, Black Olive, Ash Gray and Silver Chalice.
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 rose, orange, cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rocket Metallic, Old Lavender, Black Olive, Taupe, Grullo, Silver Chalice, Dark Slate Gray, Feldgrau, Morning Blue, Opal, Charcoal, Onyx, Cadet Blue (Crayola) and Cadet Grey.
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