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Smoke Gray Color Codes - The Hex, RGB, HSL and CMYK Values

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By: Contributing Artist

What colors make Smoke Gray?

On this page, you will find the Smoke Gray Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of Smoke Gray, color palettes, and related colors.

Smoke Gray color code

The Smoke Gray hex code is #848884. The Smoke Gray hex code can be quantified in RGB values which represent the amount of Red, Green and Blue color channels. The RGB value is an estimated amount of red, green, and blue color to create the color Smoke Gray. The RGB estimate is:


  • Red: #84 in Hex amounts to 52%
  • Green: #88 in Hex amounts to 53%
  • Blue: #84 in Hex amounts to 52%

Smoke Gray in HSL

HSL is an acronym which stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. HSL was developed for television and standardized for computer displays.

Hue is the perceived color name. Saturation is the "colorfulness" relative to the color's brightness. Brightness is our human eye's quantifed perception of the spectral light distribution. Lightness is the color brightness relative to a perceived similarly illuminated white.

Brightness and "colorfulness" are absolute measures, while Lightness and and Saturation are relative measures.

Smoke Gray is 120deg, 2%, 53% HSL.


  • Hue: 120deg
  • Saturation: 2%
  • Light: 53%

Smoke Gray color in CMYK color model

The CMYK color model is commonly used in printing. The CMYK acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. Where key is black. Since the black color is the absence of light, the CMYK is a subtractive color model. White light minus red is cyan, minus green is magenta, minus blue is yellow.

Smoke Gray is 3% 0% 3% 47% CMYK.


  • Cyan: 3%
  • Magenta: 0%
  • Yellow: 3%
  • Key (or Black): 47%

Different shades of Smoke Gray

According to its HSL value, Smoke Gray contains about 53% of brightness.

Below are the all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:

  • Hex HSL CMYK
  • #E5E5E5 120deg, 1%, 90% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
  • #CBCCCB 120deg, 1%, 80% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
  • #B1B3B1 120deg, 1%, 70% 1%, 0%, 1%, 99%
  • #979A97 120deg, 1%, 60% 2%, 0%, 2%, 99%
  • #7D817D 120deg, 1%, 50% 3%, 0%, 3%, 99%
  • #646764 120deg, 1%, 40% 3%, 0%, 3%, 99%
  • #4B4D4B 120deg, 1%, 30% 3%, 0%, 3%, 99%
  • #323332 120deg, 1%, 20% 3%, 0%, 3%, 99%
  • #191919 120deg, 1%, 10% 3%, 0%, 3%, 99%

Accessibility tips when using the color Smoke Gray

Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using Smoke Gray on text, we recommend you use black for the background.

The reason Smoke Gray contrasts better with a black background is because Smoke Gray has a degree of brightness of 53% which provides better contrast on a dark background.

The Smoke Gray color palette hex codes.

There are a few color palettes available when working with Smoke Gray, but below is our favorite:

  • Jumbo
    #878785
  • Aluminium
    #848789
  • Lunar Outpost
    #828287
  • Happy Hippo
    #818581
  • Lunar Base
    #878786
  • Pebble Beach
    #7F8285

By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from Smoke Gray

  • Argent
    #888888
  • Lunar Base
    #878786
  • Jumbo
    #878785
  • Mithril
    #878787
  • Aluminium
    #848789
  • Lunar Outpost
    #828287

Below is a series of palettes generated from the color Smoke Gray:

Palette variances of 3 colors:

  • #848887
  • #848884
  • #878884
  • #848884
  • #878884
  • #888584
  • #848488
  • #848884
  • #888484

Palette variances of 4 colors:

  • #868488
  • #848588
  • #848887
  • #848884
  • #848688
  • #848886
  • #848884
  • #868884
  • #848884
  • #868884
  • #888684
  • #888484

Palette variances of 5 colors:

  • #848788
  • #848886
  • #848884
  • #868884
  • #888784
  • #888488
  • #858488
  • #848688
  • #848887
  • #848884
  • #888486
  • #848488
  • #848788
  • #848884
  • #888784

Palette variances of 6 colors:

  • #848688
  • #848887
  • #848884
  • #878884
  • #888684
  • #888485
  • #858488
  • #848588
  • #848788
  • #848886
  • #848884
  • #868884
  • #848688
  • #848886
  • #848884
  • #868884
  • #888684
  • #888484

You will find specific color values of Smoke Gray on this page. For example, the Smoke Gray HEX color code is #848884. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for Smoke Gray are:

  • Aluminium color code is (132.0, 135.0, 137.0).
  • Lunar Outpost color code is (130.0, 130.0, 135.0).
  • Jumbo color code is (135.0, 135.0, 133.0).
  • Happy Hippo color code is (129.0, 133.0, 129.0).
  • Lunar Base color code is (135.0, 135.0, 134.0).
  • Pebble Beach color code is (127.0, 130.0, 133.0).
  • Detective Coat color code is (139.0, 134.0, 133.0).
  • Argent color code is (136.0, 136.0, 136.0).
  • Mithril color code is (135.0, 135.0, 135.0).
  • Taupe Gray color code is (139.0, 133.0, 137.0).

These values can help you match the specific shade and find complementary colors. Looking for a different shade of white? Our color mixer expertly generates nine different shades and eighteen color variances.

At ourpastimes.com, we are a creative team of product designers, engineers, and data scientists who want to make the internet a better place. We have poured over color theory, the math is tougher than you think, and built a showcase for color combinations.

We started by building a great virtual color mixer. We hope everyone has seen a color wheel. Personally, I loved the color wheel in my art classroom growing up. The acrylic paints like Titanium White, Burnt sienna, Dioxazine Purple make combining colors visceral and our color mixer virtually offers that visceral feeling of color mixing paints. Use our color mixer to build your next color scheme!

The color wheel pickers showcase 12 main colors. The three primary colors are red, green, and blue. When combined together, the primary colors create pure white light. Secondary colors result from mixing two primary colors:

  • Red and Green make Yellow.
  • Green and Blue make Cyan.
  • Blue and Red make Magenta .

Combining a secondary color and a primary color yields tertiary colors. There are six tertiary colors. The six color names are orange, chartreuse green, spring green, azure, violet and rose. Colors continue to expand, for example, halfway between blue and violet is indigo, color code #4B0082, and violet is halfway between blue and purple.

So, the color wheel includes twelve main colors: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse green, green, spring green, cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, and rose.

But how do you mix paint color? To mix acrylic paint to make gold you mix in a small quantity of brown paint (approximately one part brown to 10 parts yellow). Our color mixer is expert at mixing color by parts. Adjust the color levels with an easy toggle and we handle the math to generate the resulting hex code, RGB and HSL.

Included in our color pages are color palettes, we generate color combinations between three and six colors. We call each different color mixture “palette variances.” Each color palette variance includes eighteen color mixes with HEX code displayed.

A third component we provide on this page is color shades. For example, shades of Smoke Gray include Aluminium, Lunar Outpost, Jumbo, Happy Hippo, Lunar Base, Pebble Beach, Detective Coat, Argent, Mithril, and Taupe Gray. We offer nine tints and shades for each color. A color shade is found by adjusting the color saturation to find a darker hue. A color tint is a lighter color. For example, pink is a tint of red.

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