HEX Color #5F5049 (Dimgray)

About #5F5049

The precise color #5F5049 is an excellent choice for modern design projects. Designers often compare it to the standard color Dimgray. In the RGB color space, it consists of 95 red, 80 green, and 73 blue.

If you are designing for print, the four-color process is what matters most. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 16% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 19.1° hue, 13.1% saturation, and 32.9% lightness.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Because it is a dark color, it is generally recommended to use #FFFFFF text. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#5F5049

RGB95, 80, 73

HSL19.1°, 13.1%, 32.9%

CMYK0%, 16%, 23%, 63%

HSV19.1°, 23.2%, 37.3%

LAB35.3, 5.0, 6.4

XYZ8.8, 8.7, 7.5

Decimal6246473

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#5F5049 #49575E

Analogous

#5E494C #5E5A49

Triadic

#495E4F #50495E

Tetradic

#4C5E49 #49575E #5A495E

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#5F5049

#70635D

#827671

#948A85

#A69D99

#B7B1AE

#C9C4C2

#DBD8D6

#EDEBEA

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#5F5049

#544740

#493E38

#3F3530

#342C28

#2A2320

#1F1A18

#151110

#0A0808

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

7.69:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AAA

2.73:1

Text on #000000

FAIL

7.35:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AAA

2.32:1

Text on #0F172A

FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #5F5049; }

.text-color { color: #5F5049; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #5F5049; }

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Dimgray

#696969