Grey

#89998a

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. It works under any accent color, holding a scheme together without competing.

Grey color values

Every conversion for #89998a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#89998a

RGB137, 153, 138

HSL124, 7%, 57%

HSV124, 10%, 60%

CMYK10%, 0%, 10%, 40%

Lab61.6, -8.68, 5.95

XYZ26.3, 29.94, 28.44

Decimal9017738

Web safe#999999

Pantone5497 C

Shades of grey

#7b8d7c #6e806f #627263 #566457 #4a564b #3e483f #323a33 #262c27 #1a1e1a #0e100e

Tints of grey

#94a295 #9faca0 #aab5aa #b4beb5 #bfc8c0 #cad1cb #d5dbd5 #e0e4e0 #ebedeb #f5f7f6

Colors that go with grey

Complementary#998998 Analogous#909989 Analogous#899992 Triadic#8a8999 Triadic#998a89 Split complementary#928999 Split complementary#998990

Grey in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 10, 0, 10, 40.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #89998a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 0 10 40

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 4 13 46

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 #89998a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #89998a; }
.text { color: #89998a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #89998a; }

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 #89998a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #89998a 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 #89998a 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 #89998a 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

The figures for #89998a come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.