Gainsboro - 09/21/1944
Gainsboro is the Color of the Day for 09/21/1944. Gainsboro has a hex value of #DCDCDC. On the RGB scale it has values of Red: 220, Green: 220, and Blue: 220
Color Spaces of Gainsboro
Hex | DCDCDC | #DCDCDC |
RGB | 220 220 220 | rgb(220 220 220) |
RGB % | 86 86 86 | rgb(86 86 86) |
CIELAB | 87.76, 0, 0 |
CMY | 14, 14, 14 | |
CMYK | 0, 0, 0, 14 | |
HSL | 0, 0, 86 | hsl(0 0% 86%) |
HSV | 0, 0, 86 | hsv(0 0% 86%) |
HSI | 0, 0, 220 | |
HWB | 0, 86, 14 | hwb(0 86% 14%) |
LCH | 87.76, 0, 0 | |
XYZ | 69.01, 71.57, 59.06 |
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All About Gainsboro
Gainsboro is a pale gray color that is often described as a cool and sophisticated neutral. It is named after the town of Gainsborough in England, where a form of light gray wool was produced in the 18th century.
Gainsboro is a light shade of gray that has a high percentage of white mixed in with a smaller amount of black. This results in a subtle, understated color that can add depth and elegance to any palette. It is often used in interior design as a wall color or as a background for artwork or furniture, where its cool and calming effect can create a serene and sophisticated atmosphere.
Gainsboro can also be used in graphic design, particularly in website design and typography. Its subtle tone can be used as a background color to create a clean and modern look, and can help to emphasize other design elements such as text or images.
Symbolically, Gainsboro is associated with balance, stability, and calmness. It can evoke feelings of tranquility and introspection, making it a popular color in meditation spaces or wellness environments.
Overall, Gainsboro is a sophisticated and understated color that can add depth and elegance to any palette. Its versatility and calming effect make it a popular choice in interior design, fashion, and graphic design, while its symbolic associations with balance and tranquility make it a color that is valued for its emotional qualities.
Gainsboro in Fashion
In fashion, Gainsboro can be used as a versatile neutral that can complement a range of other colors and patterns. It is a particularly popular color for accessories such as scarves and bags, as its understated elegance can enhance the overall look of an outfit without overpowering it.
Closest Common Color
Gainsboro is closest to the common color gray. Gray is the combination of the colors black and white. Gray is associated with neutrality, balance, metal, and dullness. We see gray color used in construction for cement and in software engineering to represent subtext or disabled menu items. Gray is sometimes represented with the alternate spelling of 'grey'. Some common things you can find in gray are dolphins, ashes, greyhounds, and granite.
Shades of Gainsboro
A shade is a concept of darkening a color. Below you will find the shades of colors from Gainsboro all the way to Black evenly distributed.
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Tints of Gainsboro
A tint is a concept of lightening a color. Below you will find the tints of colors from Gainsboro all the way to White evenly distributed.
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Tones of Gainsboro
A tone is a concept of adding gray to a color. Below you will find the tones of colors from Gainsboro all the way to Gray evenly distributed.
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Monochromatic Colors of Gainsboro
A monochromatic color scheme is based on a single color and contains both shades and tints of that color. Below you will find a monochromatic color scheme based off of Gainsboro.
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Complementary Color of Gainsboro
Complementary colors are two colors that are the complete opposite of each other on the color wheel. Complementary colors are used by many including graphic designers, painters, and other artists. Knowing the complementary color for a given color is useful because using them together creates a visual contrast which can really make a design pop! Below you will find the complementary color of Gainsboro.
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Split Complementary Colors of Gainsboro
A Split Complementary color scheme is based on a single color and then finds the complementary color of the main color and uses that as a reference to find two colors to the left and right of that complementary color on the color wheel. A total of three colors make up a split complementary color scheme. A common example of a split complementary color scheme in an RGB Model is red, green-cyan, and blue-cyan. Below you will find a split complementary color scheme based off of Gainsboro.
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Triadic Colors of Gainsboro
A triadic color scheme is made up of three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. In a traditional sense you start with one color to as the baseline and the two other colors serve as accent colors. On the color wheel this can be envisioned as a triangle. Below you will find a triadic color scheme based off of Gainsboro.
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Tetradic Colors of Gainsboro
A tetradic color scheme is made up of four colors that form a rectangle on the color wheel. This color harmony is also known as a double complementary color scheme becuase it is made up of two complementary color pairs. Below you will find a tetradic color scheme based off of Gainsboro.
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Analogous Colors of Gainsboro
An analogous color scheme is made up of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. In a traditional sense you start with a single color as the baseline, a second color, and an accent color or a mixture of the first two colors as the third color. Below you will find an analogous color scheme based off of Gainsboro.
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Variations of Gainsboro
A variation of a color is the idea of swapping the values of Red, Blue, and Green with one another to create a new color. The color Gainsboro has RGB values of R:220, G:220, and B:220. Using this information, we can create the following 5 variations using RBG, GRB, GBR, BRG, and GBR. Out of the 5 possible variations of Gainsboro, 0 of them will be unique without counting our orignal color of Gainsboro.
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Web Safe Color of Gainsboro
A web safe color is a color that will not be dithered when shown on a web browser that only has 256-color support. Although this is not much of an issue in modern browsers today it is important to understand the history. A web safe color will always appear as intended across any device/browser. There are 216 colors that are considered web safe. Below you will find the closest web safe color to Gainsboro.
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CSS Code for Gainsboro
Text Color
This paragraph tag has text in the color #DCDCDC
Text Shadow Color
This text has a shadow in the color #DCDCDC
Border Color
This div tag has a border color of #DCDCDC
Background Color
This div tag has a background color of #DCDCDC
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Gainsboro Accessibility
When it comes to accessibility it is important to consider the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 issued by W3C. The WCAG provides a set of standards to determine if two colors have an appropriate contrast ratio in order to be readable on a web. This is achieved by measuring luminance, also known as brightness, between the color of your text and the background color. The WCAG has several levels of conformance: (A - Lowest, AA - Mid Range, AAA - Highest). If you meet the requirements of a higher range of conformance then you automatically meet the lower levels. For Example, if you meet AAA then by default you also meet AA and A. The contrast ratios that need to be met also consider the size of the font. Below are the contrast ratios needed to be compliant.
- Level AA (large text/18-point font): 3:1
- Level AA: 4.5:1
- Level AAA (large text/18-point font): 4.5:1
- Level AAA: 7:1
In the following sections we take a look at conformance levels AA and AAA for both large sized text and normal sized text. We took care of all the calculations so you will be able to see right away whether or not a text color of Gainsboro is readable according to the WCAG against both Black and White backgrounds.
Gainsboro Contrast on Black Background
The color Gainsboro has passed 4 out of 4 WCAG tests against a Black background. This means there is a 100% accessibility rating and therefore makes Gainsboro a perfect choice against a Black background.
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Gainsboro Contrast on White Background
The color Gainsboro has passed 0 out of 4 WCAG tests against a White background. This means there is a 0% accessibility rating and therefore makes Gainsboro a poor choice against a White background.
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