Grey

#857385

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for grey, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Grey is a near neutral, mid with barely any hue. Mid greys like this are the backbone of clean, editorial layouts. Almost anything sits on top of it, which is what makes a good neutral useful.

Grey color values

Every conversion for #857385, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#857385

RGB133, 115, 133

HSL300, 7%, 49%

HSV300, 14%, 52%

CMYK0%, 14%, 0%, 48%

Lab50.62, 10.43, -7.27

XYZ20.04, 18.94, 24.79

Decimal8745861

Web safe#996699

Pantone5285 C

Shades of grey

#796979 #6e5f6e #625562 #564b56 #4b414b #3f373f #332c33 #282228 #1c181c #100e10

Tints of grey

#918091 #9c8d9c #a79aa7 #b3a7b3 #beb4be #c9c1c9 #d5ced5 #e0dbe0 #ebe8eb #f7f5f7

Colors that go with grey

Complementary#738573 Analogous#7c7385 Analogous#85737c Triadic#858573 Triadic#738585 Split complementary#7c8573 Split complementary#73857c

Grey in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 14, 0, 48.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #857385 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 14 0 48

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 17 4 54

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Grey in css

Copy #857385 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #857385; }
.text { color: #857385; }
.border { border: 2px solid #857385; }

How grey looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Grey and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #857385 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #857385 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Grey on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #857385 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around grey? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn grey into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #857385 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from grey, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #857385 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.