Ash Gray Color Codes
Ash Gray is a light, desaturated green with the hex code #B2BEB5, RGB values of 178, 190, 181 and an HSL value of hsl(135, 8%, 72%).
| HEX | #B2BEB5 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 178, 190, 181 |
| HSL | hsl(135, 8%, 72%) |
| HSV | 135°, 6%, 75% |
| CMYK | 6%, 0%, 5%, 25% |
| LAB | 75.84, -5.84, 3.11 |
| CIELCHuv | 75.84, 8.39, 138.08° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 5507 C ΔE 1.5 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
silverΔE 6.9
Source Wikipedia, List of colors (cites ISCC-NBS)
Ash Gray Color Hex Code
The Ash Gray color hex code is #B2BEB5. Those six digits are three pairs, B2 for red, BE for green and B5 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#B2BEB5
Ash Gray Color RGB Code
The Ash Gray RGB code is rgb(178, 190, 181). Green carries the most light at 190 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(178, 190, 181)
Ash Gray Color HSV Code
The Ash Gray HSV code is 135°, 6%, 75%. Read it as a hue of 135 degrees, 6% saturation and 75% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
135°, 6%, 75%
Ash Gray Color CIELChuv Code
The Ash Gray CIELCHuv code is 75.84, 8.39, 138.08°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 76 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 8 is how far it sits from grey.
75.84, 8.39, 138.08°
Tonal scale
What are Ash Gray Color Palettes?
A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.
Shades, toward black
Tints, toward white
Tones, toward grey
Palettes
What are Ash Gray Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #B2BEB5. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Rotate a half turn and you land on #BEB2BB, a light, desaturated magenta. Maximum hue distance, which is what makes a complement read as emphasis rather than decoration. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.
Analogous
Step 30 degrees in each direction and you get #B5BEB2 and #B2BEBB. Neighbouring hues hold together without effort, which is what makes analogous sets the safe choice for large areas.
Triadic
#B5B2BE and #BEB5B2 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.
Split-complementary
Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #BBB2BE and #BEB2B5. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.
Tetradic
Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #BEB2BB, and #B2B5BE with #BEBBB2. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Ash Gray accessible?
Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.
White background
1.92:11.92
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Fails | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Fails | n/a |
Black background
10.93:110.93
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Passes |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
At 1.92:1 against white, Ash Gray is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 10.93:1. With very little saturation it behaves as a neutral, which makes it a good background or a supporting tone alongside a stronger accent.
Color vision
How Ash Gray looks with color blindness
Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.
Protanopia
About 1% of men#B7B7B7
Ash Gray shifts slightly here. ΔE 6.8
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#B7B6B8
Ash Gray shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.9
No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.
Tritanopia
About 1 in 10,000#B3B9B9
Ash Gray shifts slightly here. ΔE 5.5
No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.
Achromatopsia
About 1 in 30,000#BBBBBB
Ash Gray shifts slightly here. ΔE 6.6
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Ash Gray reads as #B7B6B8. That is a shift of ΔE 7.9, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 7.9. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.
Snippets
Using Ash Gray in code
:root {
--ash-gray: #B2BEB5;
}
.example {
color: var(--ash-gray);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'ash-gray': '#B2BEB5',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let ashGray = Color(
red: 0.698,
green: 0.745,
blue: 0.710
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="ash_gray">#B2BEB5</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const ashGray = Color(0xFFB2BEB5);