What colors make True Gray?
On this page, you will find the True Gray Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of True Gray, color palettes, and related colors.
True Gray color code
The True Gray hex code is #808080. The True 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 True Gray. The RGB estimate is:
- Red: #80 in Hex amounts to 50%
- Green: #80 in Hex amounts to 50%
- Blue: #80 in Hex amounts to 50%
True 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.
True Gray is 0deg, 0%, 50% HSL.
- Hue: 0deg
- Saturation: 0%
- Light: 50%
True 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.
True Gray is 0% 0% 0% 50% CMYK.
- Cyan: 0%
- Magenta: 0%
- Yellow: 0%
- Key (or Black): 50%
Different shades of True Gray
According to its HSL value, True Gray contains about 50% of brightness.
Below are the all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:
- Hex HSL CMYK
- #E5E5E5 0deg, 0%, 90% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #CCCCCC 0deg, 0%, 80% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #B2B2B2 0deg, 0%, 70% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #999999 0deg, 0%, 60% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #7F7F7F 0deg, 0%, 50% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #666666 0deg, 0%, 40% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #4C4C4C 0deg, 0%, 30% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #333333 0deg, 0%, 20% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #191919 0deg, 0%, 10% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
Accessibility tips when using the color True Gray
Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using True Gray on text, we recommend you use black for the background.
The reason True Gray contrasts better with a black background is because True Gray has a degree of brightness of 50% which provides better contrast on a dark background.
The True Gray color palette hex codes.
There are a few color palettes available when working with True Gray, but below is our favorite:
By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from True Gray
- Black
#000000 - Eerie Black
#1B1B1B - Carbon
#333333 - Shady Character
#4C4B4C - Granite Gray
#676767 - Spanish Gray
#989898
Below is a series of palettes generated from the color True Gray:
Palette variances of 3 colors:
- #808080
- #808080
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Palette variances of 4 colors:
- #808080
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Palette variances of 5 colors:
- #808080
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Palette variances of 6 colors:
- #808080
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You will find specific color values of True Gray on this page. For example, the True Gray HEX color code is #808080. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for True Gray are:
- Mt. Rushmore color code is (127.0, 129.0, 129.0).
- Matte Gray color code is (123.0, 123.0, 124.0).
- Ironside color code is (126.0, 128.0, 130.0).
- Battleship Grey, Old Silver color code is (132.0, 132.0, 130.0).
- Black Mana color code is (133.0, 133.0, 133.0).
- Happy Hippo color code is (129.0, 133.0, 129.0).
- Moon Base color code is (125.0, 125.0, 119.0).
- Mithril color code is (135.0, 135.0, 135.0).
- Lunar Base color code is (135.0, 135.0, 134.0).
- Gunsmoke color code is (122.0, 124.0, 118.0).
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.
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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.
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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 True Gray include Mt. Rushmore, Matte Gray, Ironside, Battleship Grey, Old Silver, Black Mana, Happy Hippo, Moon Base, Mithril, Lunar Base, and Gunsmoke. 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.
