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Home/Colors/Historical Grey

Named color · #A7A699

Historical Grey

Historical Grey is #A7A699: rgb(167 166 153), hsl(56 7% 63%), oklch(0.722 0.018 103.3). See tints, shades, harmonies, WCAG & APCA contrast, and CSS, Tailwind v4 & SCSS code.

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#A7A699

oklch(0.722 0.018 103.3)

Color conversions

HEX
#a7a699
RGB
rgb(167 166 153)
HSL
hsl(56 7% 63%)
HWB
hwb(56 60% 35%)
OKLCH
oklch(0.722 0.018 103.3)
OKLab
oklab(0.722 -0.004 0.018)
CIE Lab
lab(67.92 -1.39 6.89)
LCH
lch(67.92 7.03 101.4)
CMYK
cmyk(0% 1% 8% 35%)

Tints · Shades · Tones

Tints

  • AFAFA3
  • B8B7AD
  • C1C0B7
  • C9C9C1
  • D2D2CB
  • DBDBD5
  • E4E4DF
  • EDEDEA
  • F6F6F4

Shades

  • 919084
  • 7B7A70
  • 66655D
  • 52514A
  • 3E3E38
  • 2C2B27
  • 1A1A17
  • 0A0A08
  • 010101

Tones

  • A3A296
  • 9F9E94
  • 9B9A91
  • 97978F
  • 93938C
  • 8F8F8A
  • 8B8B87
  • 888785
  • 848482

Color harmonies

Complementary +180°

  • A7A699

    Historical Grey

  • A3A4B1

    ≈ Pandemonium

Analogous -30° +30°

  • A7A699

    Historical Grey

  • ADA499

    ≈ Warm Grey Flannel

  • A1A89C

    ≈ Secret Retreat

Triadic +120° +240°

  • A7A699

    Historical Grey

  • 9AA8AE

    ≈ Nor’wester

  • AEA1A8

    ≈ Beijing Moon

Split-complementary +150° +210°

  • A7A699

    Historical Grey

  • 9DA6B1

    ≈ Great Falls

  • A9A2AE

    ≈ Luxe Lilac

Tetradic +90° +180° +270°

  • A7A699

    Historical Grey

  • 99A9A8

    ≈ Oily Steel

  • A3A4B1

    ≈ Pandemonium

  • B1A1A2

    ≈ Dusky Hyacinth

Contrast & accessibility

Ag

On white

WCAG 2.45:1 · APCA Lc 48

Fail
Ag

On black

WCAG 8.55:1 · APCA Lc 54

AAA

Best text color: #000000

WCAG 8.55:1 (AAA) · APCA Lc 54

Contrast pairs

  • #A7A699 / #FFFFFF
  • #A7A699 / #000000
  • #FFFFFF / #A7A699
  • #000000 / #A7A699

Code snippets

CSS

:root {
  --historical-grey: #a7a699;
  --historical-grey-rgb: 167 166 153;
  --historical-grey-oklch: oklch(0.722 0.018 103.3);
}

.element {
  color: var(--historical-grey);
  background-color: hsl(56 7% 63%);
  border-color: oklch(0.722 0.018 103.3);
}

Tailwind CSS v4

@theme {
  --color-historical-grey: #a7a699;
  --color-historical-grey-50: #f6f5f0;
  --color-historical-grey-100: #e8e8e1;
  --color-historical-grey-200: #d5d5cc;
  --color-historical-grey-300: #b8b8ad;
  --color-historical-grey-400: #a09f93;
  --color-historical-grey-500: #888779;
  --color-historical-grey-600: #737267;
  --color-historical-grey-700: #5c5b52;
  --color-historical-grey-800: #44433b;
  --color-historical-grey-900: #2f2e29;
  --color-historical-grey-950: #1b1b17;
}

SCSS

$historical-grey: #a7a699;
$historical-grey-rgb: 167, 166, 153;
$historical-grey-light: mix(#fff, $historical-grey, 20%);
$historical-grey-dark: mix(#000, $historical-grey, 20%);

.element {
  color: $historical-grey;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px rgba($historical-grey, 0.35);
}

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