Medium Gray - 05/05/2003
Medium Gray is the Color of the Day for 05/05/2003. Medium Gray has a hex value of #A9A9A9. On the RGB scale it has values of Red: 169, Green: 169, and Blue: 169
Color Spaces of Medium Gray
Hex | A9A9A9 | #A9A9A9 |
RGB | 169 169 169 | rgb(169 169 169) |
RGB % | 66 66 66 | rgb(66 66 66) |
CIELAB | 69.24, 0, 0 |
CMY | 34, 34, 34 | |
CMYK | 0, 0, 0, 34 | |
HSL | 0, 0, 66 | hsl(0 0% 66%) |
HSV | 0, 0, 66 | hsv(0 0% 66%) |
HSI | 0, 0, 169 | |
HWB | 0, 66, 34 | hwb(0 66% 34%) |
LCH | 69.24, 0, 0 | |
XYZ | 38.26, 39.68, 32.74 |
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All About Medium Gray
Medium Gray is a versatile color that can range from a warm gray to a cool gray, depending on its undertones. It is a popular choice for fashion, interior design, and graphic design, as it is a neutral color that can easily blend with other colors and styles.
Overall, Medium Gray is a versatile color that can be used in a range of contexts to create a sense of balance, harmony, and neutrality. Whether it is used in fashion, interior design, or graphic design, Medium Gray is a color that is sure to add a touch of understated elegance and sophistication to any project.
Medium Gray in Fashion
In fashion, Medium Gray is often used for casual wear such as sweatshirts, t-shirts, and leggings. Its soft, muted feel can create a sense of comfort and relaxation. It is also a popular choice for business attire, as it can create a sense of professionalism and authority.
Medium Gray in Interior Design
In interior design, Medium Gray is often used as a neutral base color for walls, furniture, and decor. Its muted, calming feel can create a sense of relaxation and comfort in a space. It is a popular choice for modern and minimalist spaces, as well as traditional spaces where it can add a sense of sophistication and elegance.
Medium Gray in Graphic Design
In graphic design, Medium Gray is often used as a background color for text, graphics, and images. Its neutral, understated feel can create a sense of balance and harmony in a design. It is also a popular choice for logos and branding, as it can create a sense of authority and professionalism.
Closest Common Color
Medium Gray 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 Medium Gray
A shade is a concept of darkening a color. Below you will find the shades of colors from Medium Gray all the way to Black evenly distributed.
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Tints of Medium Gray
A tint is a concept of lightening a color. Below you will find the tints of colors from Medium Gray all the way to White evenly distributed.
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Tones of Medium Gray
A tone is a concept of adding gray to a color. Below you will find the tones of colors from Medium Gray all the way to Gray evenly distributed.
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Monochromatic Colors of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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Complementary Color of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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Split Complementary Colors of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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Triadic Colors of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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Tetradic Colors of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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Analogous Colors of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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Variations of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray has RGB values of R:169, G:169, and B:169. Using this information, we can create the following 5 variations using RBG, GRB, GBR, BRG, and GBR. Out of the 5 possible variations of Medium Gray, 0 of them will be unique without counting our orignal color of Medium Gray.
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Web Safe Color of Medium Gray
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 Medium Gray.
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CSS Code for Medium Gray
Text Color
This paragraph tag has text in the color #A9A9A9
Text Shadow Color
This text has a shadow in the color #A9A9A9
Border Color
This div tag has a border color of #A9A9A9
Background Color
This div tag has a background color of #A9A9A9
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Medium Gray 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 Medium Gray is readable according to the WCAG against both Black and White backgrounds.
Medium Gray Contrast on Black Background
The color Medium Gray has passed 4 out of 4 WCAG tests against a Black background. This means there is a 100% accessibility rating and therefore makes Medium Gray a perfect choice against a Black background.
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Medium Gray Contrast on White Background
The color Medium Gray has passed 0 out of 4 WCAG tests against a White background. This means there is a 0% accessibility rating and therefore makes Medium Gray a poor choice against a White background.
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