#b6978eIt is a bright grayish red color having an approximate luminance of 65%. It has a hue value of 14° indicating that this is a warm color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Tuscany, Rosy Brown, Silver Pink, Cinereous, Beaver, Black Shadows, Antique Brass, Burnished Brown, Grullo and Pastel Pink. 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 #b6978e to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (182, 151, 142)
#b6978e
hsl (13.5, 21.5%, 63.5%)
hsv (13.5, 22%, 71.4%)
lab (65, 10.1, 9.1)
xyz (35.2, 34, 30.3)
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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 #b6978e 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 red color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Silver Pink, Black Shadows, Pale Silver, Silver (Crayola), Timberwolf, Champagne Pink, Gainsboro, Platinum, Isabelline, Snow, Cultured and Seashell.
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 red color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Cinereous, Rocket Metallic, Deep Taupe, Burnished Brown, Umber, Liver, Dark Liver, Rose Ebony, Black Coffee, Taupe, Dark Lava, Old Burgundy, Eerie Black, Raisin 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 red color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Tuscany, Silver Pink, Cinereous, Rosy Brown, Black Shadows, Grullo, Spanish Gray, Quick Silver, Silver (Metallic) 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 warm colors. There are variants of red and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rose Ebony, Eggplant, Tuscany, Silver Pink, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Dark Lava, Taupe, Grullo and Khaki (Web).
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 red and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnished Brown, Cinereous, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Dark Slate Gray, Pewter Blue and Dark Sky Blue.
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 red, azure, blue and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnished Brown, Cinereous, Independence, Charcoal, Wild Blue Yonder, Cadet Blue (Crayola), MSU Green, English Green, Cambridge Blue and Morning Blue.
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 red, green, cyan and violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnished Brown, Cinereous, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green, Cambridge Blue, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Dark Slate Gray, Pewter Blue, Dark Sky Blue, English Violet, Dark Liver, Rose Quartz and Heliotrope Gray.
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