Color detail

Light Gray
#B5BAC0

Light Gray (#B5BAC0) with RGB(181, 186, 192) and HSL(213, 8%, 73%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

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Interactive

UI Sandbox

Project Dashboard

Active theme: Light Gray

Values

Production-ready color values

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

HEX

#B5BAC0

RGB

rgb(181, 186, 192)

HSL

hsl(213, 8%, 73%)

HSV

hsv(213, 6%, 75%)

CMYK

cmyk(6%, 3%, 0%, 25%)

Decimal

11909824

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.95:1

On black

10.75:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#131416 #232629 #3B3F45 #525960 #6A727C #838B95 #9FA5AD #B5BAC0 #CDD1D5 #E6E8EA

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.95:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

10.75:1

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

#B5BAC0 #C0BBB5

Triadic

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0B5BA #BAC0B5

Analogous

Open palette

#B5BFC0 #B5BCC0 #B5BAC0 #B5B7C0 #B5B5C0

Split complementary

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0B5B5 #BFC0B5

Tetradic

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0B5BF #C0BBB5 #B5C0B5

Monochromatic

Open palette

#2F3337 #525960 #757E8A #9FA5AD #C8CCD0

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Light Gray (#B5BAC0) with RGB(181, 186, 192) and HSL(213, 8%, 73%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

bluesoftcoolhex-b5bac0h-213s-8l-73

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Light Gray */
color: #B5BAC0;
background-color: #B5BAC0;
border-color: #B5BAC0;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #b5bac040;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#B5BAC0] text-[#B5BAC0] border-[#B5BAC0] ring-[#B5BAC0]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.710, green: 0.729, blue: 0.753)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFB5BAC0)

Android XML

<color name="light_gray">#B5BAC0</color>

React Native

{ color: '#B5BAC0' }

Social Media

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Brand Match

Closest real-world color

Sherwin-Williams

Repose Gray

SW 7015 · #C0BCB8

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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 blue family with a soft tone, so it holds enough weight for primary UI accents. It reads as calm, credible, and interface-friendly.

Applications

Light Gray (#B5BAC0) with RGB(181, 186, 192) and HSL(213, 8%, 73%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Blue

Tone

Soft

Temperature

cool

Keywords

blue, soft, cool, hex-b5bac0, h-213, s-8

Conversion

Color conversions

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

HEX

#B5BAC0

RGB

rgb(181, 186, 192)

HSL

hsl(213, 8%, 73%)

HSV

hsv(213, 6%, 75%)

CMYK

cmyk(6%, 3%, 0%, 25%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

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

#131416 #232629 #3B3F45 #525960 #6A727C #838B95 #9FA5AD #B5BAC0 #CDD1D5 #E6E8EA

900

#131416

800

#232629

700

#3B3F45

600

#525960

500

#6A727C

400

#838B95

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

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

Complementary

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0BBB5

Triadic

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0B5BA #BAC0B5

Analogous

Open palette

#B5BFC0 #B5BCC0 #B5BAC0 #B5B7C0 #B5B5C0

Split complementary

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0B5B5 #BFC0B5

Tetradic

Open palette

#B5BAC0 #C0B5BF #C0BBB5 #B5C0B5

Monochromatic

Open palette

#2F3337 #525960 #757E8A #9FA5AD #C8CCD0

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia

#B7B7BF

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

Deuteranopia

#B7B7BE

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

Tritanopia

#B5BDBD

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

1.95:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

10.75:1

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 #B5BAC0 for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-blue-soft

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

Tailwind-friendly scale

blue-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #B5BAC0 as the core value.

HSL token

213 8% 73%

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#B5BAC0

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
#B5BAC0