Pewter Color Codes

Pewter is a mid-tone neutral grey with the hex code #91A092, RGB values of 145, 160, 146 and an HSL value of hsl(124, 7%, 60%).

HEX	#91A092
RGB	145, 160, 146
HSL	hsl(124, 7%, 60%)
HSV	124°, 9%, 63%
CMYK	9%, 0%, 9%, 37%
LAB	64.35, -8.06, 5.49
CIELCHuv	64.35, 11.95, 130.08°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 5497 C ΔE 2.7 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: darkgray ΔE 10.9

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Pewter Color Hex Code

The Pewter color hex code is #91A092. Those six digits are three pairs, 91 for red, A0 for green and 92 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#91A092

Pewter Color RGB Code

The Pewter RGB code is rgb(145, 160, 146). Green carries the most light at 160 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(145, 160, 146)

Pewter Color HSV Code

The Pewter HSV code is 124°, 9%, 63%. Read it as a hue of 124 degrees, 9% saturation and 63% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

124°, 9%, 63%

Pewter Color CIELChuv Code

The Pewter CIELCHuv code is 64.35, 11.95, 130.08°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 64 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 12 is how far it sits from grey.

64.35, 11.95, 130.08°

Tonal scale

What are Pewter 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

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Pewter Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #91A092. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Rotate a half turn and you land on #A0919F, a mid-tone neutral grey. 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 #98A091 and #91A09A. Neighbouring hues hold together without effort, which is what makes analogous sets the safe choice for large areas.

Triadic

#9291A0 and #A09291 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: #9A91A0 and #A09198. 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 #A0919F, and #9198A0 with #A09A91. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

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

2.75:1

2.75

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

7.65:1

7.65

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 2.75:1 against white, Pewter 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 7.65:1. With very little saturation it behaves as a neutral, which makes it a good background or a supporting tone alongside a stronger accent.

Check Pewter against another color →

Color vision

How Pewter 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

actual

#989896

Pewter shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.0

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#979696

Pewter shifts noticeably here. ΔE 10.2

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

actual

#929899

Pewter shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.3

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

actual

#9C9C9C

Pewter shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.8

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, Pewter reads as #979696. That is a shift of ΔE 10.2, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 10.2. 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.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Pewter in code

:root {
  --pewter: #91A092;
}

.example {
  color: var(--pewter);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'pewter': '#91A092',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let pewter = Color(
    red: 0.569,
    green: 0.627,
    blue: 0.573
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="pewter">#91A092</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const pewter = Color(0xFF91A092);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Pewter Color?

Pewter reads as quiet. It is muted enough to work as a background rather than a signal, and at 7% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 64 it behaves as a neutral color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Pewter Color?

The closest CSS keyword is DarkGray (#A9A9A9), though it is not a match: Delta-E 10.9 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 5497 C at #91A399. The name Pewter comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Pewter Color Made?

On a screen Pewter is made by additive light: 145 red, 160 green and 146 blue out of 255, with green leading and 145 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 9%, 0%, 9%, 37%. Starting from the pure hue at 124 degrees, Pewter is a tone, so it is that hue knocked back with grey.