Photo in the color Cool grey
Pictured: Cool grey
rgb(140, 146, 172)
#8C92AC

Cool Grey #8C92AC RGB Color Code

Also known as Gray - Blue

Cool Grey (#8C92AC) is a medium tinted gray. In RGB it is made of 55% red, 57% green and 67% blue (R 140, G 146, B 172). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 229°, 16% saturation and 61% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.291, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 19% cyan, 15% magenta, 0% yellow and 33% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Cool Grey color codes

#8C92AC in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #8C92AC Valid CSS
RGB rgb(140, 146, 172) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(229, 16%, 61%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(229, 19%, 67%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(229 55% 33%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(19%, 15%, 0%, 33%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(66.4% 0.0391 275.05) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(66.4% 0.0034 -0.039) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(60.73% 1.97 -14.49) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(60.73% 14.62 277.73) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5533 0.5718 0.6659) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2854 0.2911 0.4315) Valid CSS
Decimal 9212588 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2911. Nearest web-safe color: #999999.

Mix Cool Grey with other colors

See what #8C92AC makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintCool Grey and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightCool Grey and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintCool Grey and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalCool Grey blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Cool Grey in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--cool-grey: #8C92AC;
Sass variable$cool-grey: #8C92AC;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-cool-grey: #8C92AC; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'cool-grey': '#8C92AC' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.549, green: 0.573, blue: 0.675)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.549, green: 0.573, blue: 0.675, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="cool_grey">#FF8C92AC</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF8C92AC)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #8C92AC (6.82:1, AA). Here is how #8C92AC does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.08:1 on white
APCA Lc 58
AA LargeTry #70768F
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.82:1 on black
APCA Lc -44
AA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Cool Grey

#8C92AC next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#8C92AC has almost no hue, so it looks much the same with every type of color blindness. Only its lightness counts. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Cool Grey

Gray with a blue tint

Cool grey is a medium gray that leans toward blue. Grays are called cool when they have a hint of blue, green or violet in them.

The Wikipedia list of colors gives #8C92AC for cool grey and names the ISCC-NBS system as its source. The Shades of gray article shows a different and bluer value, #9090C0. It matches that to sample 203 in the ISCC-NBS dictionary of 1955. So the two pages disagree, and we could not confirm which code the dictionary meant.

The cool grey city

In a poem from 1920, George Sterling called San Francisco the "cool grey city of love." The words refer to the fog that rolls in from the Pacific. Compare this shade with cadet grey or browse more shades of gray.

Cool Grey in a user interface

A sample app screen with #8C92AC as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #8C92AC as it is. On the light theme, #8C92AC is too hard to read as text (3.08:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #70768F there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Cool Grey

These schemes turn the hue of #8C92AC around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#8C92AC#ACA68C

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#8CA2ACthis#8C92AC#968CAC

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#8C92AC#AC8C92#92AC8C

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#8C92AC#AC968C#A2AC8C

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#8C92AC#A68CAC#ACA68C#92AC8C

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#8C92AC#AC8CA2#ACA68C#8CAC96

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#2B2E3B#4D536B#727A99#A2A7BC#D3D5DF

Gradients with Cool Grey

Four CSS gradients made from #8C92AC. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #E7E8EE, #8C92AC);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #8C92AC, #23252D);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8CA2AC, #8C92AC, #968CAC);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8C92AC, #9D8F9F, #AC8C92);

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Shades, tints and tones of Cool Grey

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Cool Grey sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F4F6FF
  2. 100
    E9ECF9
  3. 200
    D6DAEC
  4. 300
    BAC0D6
  5. 400
    9CA2BB
  6. 500
    8C92AC
  7. 600
    656A83
  8. 700
    4F546A
  9. 800
    3D4153
  10. 900
    2C2F3D
  11. 950
    1B1C24

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #8C92AC in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 7001 Silver grey#8F999F, very close (ΔE 3.2)Tailwind CSSslate-400 #94A3B8, very close (ΔE 4.8)CSS color nameslightslategray #778899, very close (ΔE 4.8)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of gray or search the color library.