Color detail

Light Gray
#AEAE9E

Light Gray (#AEAE9E) with RGB(174, 174, 158) and HSL(60, 9%, 65%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

LimeSoftneutral

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Interactive

UI Sandbox

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Active theme: Light Gray

Values

Production-ready color values

Copy formats for CSS, handoff docs, tokens, and implementation.

HEX

#AEAE9E

RGB

rgb(174, 174, 158)

HSL

hsl(60, 9%, 65%)

HSV

hsv(60, 9%, 68%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 0%, 9%, 32%)

Decimal

11447966

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

2.25:1

On black

9.35:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#161613 #2A2A23 #45453A #616151 #7D7D68 #979782 #AEAE9E #C0C0B4 #D5D5CD #EAEAE6

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

2.25:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

9.35:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9E9EAE

Triadic

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9EAEAE #AE9EAE

Analogous

Open palette

#AEA69E #AEAA9E #AEAE9E #AAAE9E #A6AE9E

Split complementary

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9EA6AE #A69EAE

Tetradic

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9EAEA6 #9E9EAE #AE9EA6

Monochromatic

Open palette

#38382E #616151 #8B8B74 #AEAE9E #D1D1C7

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Light Gray (#AEAE9E) with RGB(174, 174, 158) and HSL(60, 9%, 65%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

limesoftwarmhex-aeae9eh-60s-9l-65

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Light Gray */
color: #AEAE9E;
background-color: #AEAE9E;
border-color: #AEAE9E;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #aeae9e40;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#AEAE9E] text-[#AEAE9E] border-[#AEAE9E] ring-[#AEAE9E]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.682, green: 0.682, blue: 0.620)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFAEAE9E)

Android XML

<color name="light_gray">#AEAE9E</color>

React Native

{ color: '#AEAE9E' }

Social Media

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About

About Light Gray

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Light Gray sits in the lime family with a soft tone, so it holds enough weight for primary UI accents. It reads as energetic, social, and forward-moving.

Applications

Light Gray (#AEAE9E) with RGB(174, 174, 158) and HSL(60, 9%, 65%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Lime

Tone

Soft

Temperature

warm

Keywords

lime, soft, warm, hex-aeae9e, h-60, s-9

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#AEAE9E

RGB

rgb(174, 174, 158)

HSL

hsl(60, 9%, 65%)

HSV

hsv(60, 9%, 68%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 0%, 9%, 32%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#161613 #2A2A23 #45453A #616151 #7D7D68 #979782 #AEAE9E #C0C0B4 #D5D5CD #EAEAE6

900

#161613

800

#2A2A23

700

#45453A

600

#616151

500

#7D7D68

400

#979782

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9E9EAE

Triadic

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9EAEAE #AE9EAE

Analogous

Open palette

#AEA69E #AEAA9E #AEAE9E #AAAE9E #A6AE9E

Split complementary

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9EA6AE #A69EAE

Tetradic

Open palette

#AEAE9E #9EAEA6 #9E9EAE #AE9EA6

Monochromatic

Open palette

#38382E #616151 #8B8B74 #AEAE9E #D1D1C7

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#AEAEA2

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#AEAEA3

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#AEA5A6

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

2.25:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

9.35:1

AAA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Light Gray

Closest standard CSS name to #AEAE9E for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-lime-soft

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

lime-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #AEAE9E as the core value.

HSL token

60 9% 65%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

Light Gray#AEAE9E

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Light Gray

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Light Gray

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Light Gray
#AEAE9E