CSS named colour

Light Slate Gray

#778899

A CSS named colour: lightslategray is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB
rgb(119 136 153)
HSL
210°, 14%, 53%
OKLCh
61.9% 0.032 248.4

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Light Slate Gray in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex#778899
RGBrgb(119 136 153)
RGB legacyrgb(119, 136, 153)
RGB percentrgb(46.67% 53.33% 60%)
HSLhsl(210 14.3% 53.3%)
HSL legacyhsl(210, 14.3%, 53.3%)
HSV / HSBhsv(210, 22.2%, 60%)
HWBhwb(210 46.7% 40%)
Nearest namelightslategray
CMYKcmyk(22.2%, 11.1%, 0%, 40%)Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLChoklch(61.902% 0.0325 248.351)Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLaboklab(61.902% -0.01199 -0.03021)
CIE LChlch(55.771% 11.804 253.018)
CIE Lablab(55.771% -3.448 -11.289)
Display P3color(display-p3 0.4794 0.5313 0.5935)
Rec. 2020color(rec2020 0.4461 0.4821 0.5497)
srgb-linearcolor(srgb-linear 0.1845 0.2462 0.3185)Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)color(xyz-d65 0.2216 0.2383 0.3357)

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGBvec3(0.467, 0.533, 0.6)Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linearvec3(0.184, 0.246, 0.319)Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGBvec4(0.467, 0.533, 0.6, 1.0)
GLSL vec4 — linearvec4(0.184, 0.246, 0.319, 1.0)
GLSL ivec3ivec3(119, 136, 153)
HLSL float3 — sRGBfloat3(0.467, 0.533, 0.6)
HLSL float3 — linearfloat3(0.184, 0.246, 0.319)
HLSL float4 — sRGBfloat4(0.467, 0.533, 0.6, 1.0)
HLSL half4 — sRGBhalf4(0.467, 0.533, 0.6, 1.0)
WGSL vec3f — sRGBvec3f(0.467, 0.533, 0.6)
WGSL vec4f — sRGBvec4f(0.467, 0.533, 0.6, 1.0)
WGSL vec3<f32> — linearvec3<f32>(0.184, 0.246, 0.319)

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Colornew Color(0.467f, 0.533f, 0.6f, 1.0f)Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32new Color32(119, 136, 153, 255)
Unreal FLinearColorFLinearColor(0.1845f, 0.2462f, 0.3185f, 1.0f)FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColorFColor(119, 136, 153, 255)Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot ColorColor(0.467, 0.533, 0.6, 1)
Flutter ColorColor(0xFF778899)Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android ColorColor.rgb(119, 136, 153)
SwiftUI ColorColor(red: 0.467, green: 0.533, blue: 0.6)
UIKit UIColorUIColor(red: 0.467, green: 0.533, blue: 0.6, alpha: 1)

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex0x778899
0x hex (ARGB)0xFF778899
Array 0–1[0.467, 0.533, 0.6]
Array 0–255[119, 136, 153]
Decimal integer7833753

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

PairingWCAG 2 ratioLevelAPCASuitable for
Light Slate Gray on white3.64:1AA LargeLc 64Headings and large text
Light Slate Gray on black5.77:1AALc 38Non-text elements only

Light Slate Gray text on a white background

Light Slate Gray text on a black background

White text on Light Slate Gray

Black text on Light Slate Gray

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

  • 50#ebf9ff
  • 100#e1effe
  • 200#cfdeee
  • 300#b7c8d8
  • 400#9aabbd
  • 500#7c8d9f
  • 600#637484
  • 700#4e5d6b
  • 800#3c4956
  • 900#2e3945
  • 950#172029

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

  • Tint 1#8c9ba9
  • Tint 2#a2aeba
  • Tint 3#b9c2cb
  • Tint 4#d0d6dc
  • Tint 5#e7eaed
  • Shade 1#5c6977
  • Shade 2#424c57
  • Shade 3#2a3138
  • Shade 4#14181c
  • Shade 5#030405

Colours that work with Light Slate Gray

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

  • #938371
  • #987e82
  • #808a75
  • #718b93
  • #81849a

Closest CSS names

  • lightslategrayexact match
  • slategrayΔEok 0.027
  • grayΔEok 0.038
  • cadetblueΔEok 0.064
  • steelblueΔEok 0.074
  • darkcyanΔEok 0.094