Information about #BCBCBC color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted balanced grey tone, #BCBCBC appears airy and pastel-like. Designers typically reach for tones like this for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Soft Gray (#BBBDBD). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Greywacke (#BCB8BE) and Quarter Delta (#BFC0BB).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (188 each), placing #BCBCBC exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #BCBCBC: 11.1:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.9:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#BCBCBC color variations
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#BCBCBC color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#BCBCBC color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#BCBCBC color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
#BCBCBC belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, and greyscale colors have no hue. Hue is an angle on the color wheel, and that angle only exists when a color leans toward one primary more than the others. Here all three channels are equal (R = G = B), so there is nothing to lean and no angle to measure.
Everything built on rotating that angle therefore has nothing to rotate. A complementary color is the hue 180° away — for a grey, that is the same grey. The same goes for analogous, triadic, tetradic and square harmonies. Rather than show seven identical swatches, the register leaves the Hues variation strip and the whole Harmonies section out.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints, shades and tones still work, because they move the color up and down the scale instead of around the wheel. So do the nearest named colors, the conversions and the adjacent color codes.
How the register classifies colors · All greyscale colors in the register
Alternatives to #BCBCBC color
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Nearest named colors to #BCBCBC
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#BBBDBD
#BCB8BE
#BFC0BB
#BABDC1
#BFBDC1
#BEBFB7
#C0C0C0
#C0C1BF
#C3BEBB
#B9C3BE
#B7BAB6
#BEBDB4
#BCBCBC color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#BCBCBC
- RGB188, 188, 188
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 26
- CSSrgb(188, 188, 188)
- HSL0°, 0%, 74%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 73.725%
- HSV0°, 0%, 74%
- HSB0°, 0%, 74%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.737
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.737
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.737
- GLSLvec3(0.737, 0.737, 0.737)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.737, 0.737, 0.737, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.737, 0.737, 0.737)
- Percentage of Red in RGB73.7%
- Percentage of Green in RGB73.7%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB73.7%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDBCBCBC
- DECIMAL ID12369084
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
