Silver

#b3baba

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

Silver is a near neutral, light with barely any hue. Neutrals like this hold a palette together quietly. Almost anything sits on top of it, which is what makes a good neutral useful.

Silver color values

Every conversion for #b3baba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b3baba

RGB179, 186, 186

HSL180, 5%, 72%

HSV180, 4%, 73%

CMYK4%, 0%, 0%, 27%

Lab74.98, -2.42, -0.85

XYZ45.01, 48.25, 53.39

Decimal11778746

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5435 C

Shades of silver

#a1aaaa #909a9a #7e8a8a #6e7979 #5e6868 #4e5656 #3e4545 #2e3333 #1e2222 #0f1010

Tints of silver

#bac0c0 #c0c6c6 #c7cccc #ced2d2 #d4d8d8 #dbdede #e2e4e4 #e8eaea #eff0f0 #f6f7f7

Colors that go with silver

Complementary#bab3b3 Analogous#b3bab6 Analogous#b3b6ba Triadic#bab3ba Triadic#babab3 Split complementary#bab3b6 Split complementary#bab6b3

Silver in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 4, 0, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b3baba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 0 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 4 4 33

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Silver in css

Copy #b3baba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b3baba; }
.text { color: #b3baba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b3baba; }

How silver looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Silver and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #b3baba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b3baba against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Silver on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #b3baba sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around silver? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn silver into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #b3baba 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 silver, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #b3baba are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.