Grey

#859382

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 #859382, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#859382

RGB133, 147, 130

HSL109, 7%, 54%

HSV109, 12%, 58%

CMYK10%, 0%, 12%, 42%

Lab59.4, -8.39, 7.29

XYZ24.14, 27.47, 25.15

Decimal8754050

Web safe#999999

Pantone5555 C

Shades of grey

#788775 #6c7a6a #616d5e #556053 #495347 #3e453c #323830 #262b25 #1a1e1a #0f100e

Tints of grey

#909d8e #9ca799 #a7b1a5 #b2bbb0 #bdc5bc #c9cfc7 #d4d9d3 #dfe3de #eaedea #f6f7f5

Colors that go with grey

Complementary#908293 Analogous#8e9382 Analogous#829387 Triadic#828593 Triadic#938285 Split complementary#878293 Split complementary#93828d

Grey in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 10, 0, 12, 42.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #859382 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 0 12 42

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 4 15 48

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 #859382 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #859382; }
.text { color: #859382; }
.border { border: 2px solid #859382; }

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 #859382 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #859382 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 #859382 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 #859382 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

Every value on this page for #859382 is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.