Medium Gray

The color code of Medium Gray indicates, that blue is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with green it forms the basic color cyan, which determines the initial color impression in the same way as blue. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Medium Gray is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 2 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 42 %, Medium Gray is a rather dark color.

Hex	`#686c6e`
RGB	`rgb(104, 108, 110)`
HSL*	`hsl(200, 3%, 42%)`
Lab*	`45.35 -1.1 -1.65`
CMYK*	`5% 2% 0% 57%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

57 %

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