#7C8383
A medium, muted neutral closely aligning with Gray.
About #7C8383
When working with digital screens, the color #7C8383 is rendered by mixing light. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Gray. Its digital footprint relies on 124 parts red, 131 parts green, and 131 parts blue light.
While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 5% cyan and 0% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 180.0° hue, 2.7% saturation, and 50.0% lightness.
Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.