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#7E8A9A

#7e8a9a ≈ Light Slate Gray

  • azure
  • Lightness: medium
  • Saturation: muted
  • Cool
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#7e8a9a is a color from the azure family, with medium lightness and muted saturation. In the RGB model it is made of 49.41% red, 54.12% green and 60.39% blue; printed in CMYK it uses 18.18% cyan, 10.39% magenta, 0% yellow and 39.61% black. Its hue angle is 214.29°, with 12.17% saturation and 54.9% lightness in HSL. It is a cool color, often associated with openness, freedom and calm. Designers typically use it for technology products, finance and banking and brand accents. Black text on this color reaches a contrast ratio of 5.99:1 (WCAG AA). The closest named color is Light Slate Gray (#778899), ΔE 2.15.

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Web safe#669999
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Relative luminance0.2495

Complementary

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #9a8e7e

Split complementary

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #9a807e
  3. #989a7e

Analogous

  1. #7e989a
  2. #7e8a9a
  3. #807e9a

Triadic

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #9a7e8a
  3. #8a9a7e

Tetradic

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #8e7e9a
  3. #9a8e7e
  4. #8a9a7e

Square

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #9a7e98
  3. #9a8e7e
  4. #7e9a80

Monochromatic

  1. #383e47
  2. #596472
  3. #7e8a9a
  4. #a9b1bc
  5. #d4d8dd

Shades

#7e8a9a mixed progressively with black.

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #717c8b
  3. #656e7b
  4. #58616c
  5. #4c535c
  6. #3f454d
  7. #32373e
  8. #26292e
  9. #191c1f
  10. #0d0e0f
  11. #000000

Tints

#7e8a9a mixed progressively with white.

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #8b96a4
  3. #98a1ae
  4. #a5adb8
  5. #b2b9c2
  6. #bfc5cd
  7. #cbd0d7
  8. #d8dce1
  9. #e5e8eb
  10. #f2f3f5
  11. #ffffff

Tones

#7e8a9a mixed progressively with gray.

  1. #7e8a9a
  2. #7e8997
  3. #7e8895
  4. #7f8792
  5. #7f8690
  6. #7f858d
  7. #7f848a
  8. #7f8388
  9. #808285
  10. #808183
  11. #808080

Readable text 3.51:1 AA ✕ AA Large ✓ AAA ✕ AAA Large ✕
Readable text 5.99:1 AA ✓ AA Large ✓ AAA ✕ AAA Large ✓

Achromatopsia #898989 ≈ 0.003% of males
Achromatomaly #858990 ≈ 0.001% of males
Protanopia #858a9b ≈ 1.01% of males
Deuteranopia #82889a ≈ 1.27% of males
Tritanopia #778d8f ≈ 0.0001% of males
Protanomaly #828a9a ≈ 1.08% of males
Deuteranomaly #80899a ≈ 4.63% of males
Tritanomaly #7a8c94 ≈ 0.0002% of males
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Text color
.text-7e8a9a {
  color: #7e8a9a;
}
Background
.bg-7e8a9a {
  background-color: #7e8a9a;
  color: #000000;
}
Border
.border-7e8a9a {
  border: 2px solid #7e8a9a;
}
CSS variables
:root {
  --color-primary: #7e8a9a;
  --color-primary-rgb: 126 138 154;
  --color-primary-hsl: 214 12% 55%;
}
Gradient
.gradient-7e8a9a {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7e8a9a, #807e9a);
}
Colored shadow
.shadow-7e8a9a {
  box-shadow: 0 8px 24px rgb(126 138 154 / 0.35);
}

#778899 Light Slate Gray ΔE 2.15 #778899 Light Slate Grey ΔE 2.15 #708090 Slate Gray ΔE 4.31 #708090 Slate Grey ΔE 4.31 #8c92ac Cool Gray ΔE 6.75 #808080 Gray ΔE 8.81 #808080 Grey ΔE 8.81 #817565 Inverted #898989 Grayscale 

Light Slate Gray
#7e8a9a  rgb(126, 138, 154)  hsl(214, 12%, 55%)  Light Slate Gray
#9a8e7e  rgb(154, 142, 126)  hsl(34, 12%, 55%)  Beaver
#9a7e8a  rgb(154, 126, 138)  hsl(334, 12%, 55%)  Mountbatten Pink
#8a9a7e  rgb(138, 154, 126)  hsl(94, 12%, 55%)  Xanadu