Battleship Grey #6B7C85

About this color

#6B7C85 is a medium-dark close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 58%, its chroma 0.024. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Battleship Grey. Black text reads best on it, at 4.84:1.

Colors that go with Battleship Grey

Matches found by rotating Battleship Grey around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Battleship Grey

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Battleship Grey, closest first.

• Overcast Sky
• Capital Advisory
• Summit Briefing
• Anchor Advisory
• Anchor and Capital
• Trust Boardroom
• Hoar Morning
• Hoar Lake

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Battleship Grey, with their ΔE distance.

• Grey Blue #647D8E ΔE 0.015
• Steel Grey #6F828A ΔE 0.019
• Slate Gray #708090 ΔE 0.020
• Battleship Gray #6C757D ΔE 0.020
• Medium Grey #7D7F7C ΔE 0.031
• Steel #738595 ΔE 0.034
• Gray #808080 ΔE 0.034
• Lavender Gray #7E7F9A ΔE 0.044

More about Battleship Grey

• Shades of gray
• What gray means

How to make Battleship Grey

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts gray
• 1 part blue

Recipe result: #6C838D, a difference of ΔE 0.022 from Battleship Grey. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Battleship Grey in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Battleship Grey

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F4F6F6

   oklch(97.2% 0.002 197.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E8EAEB

   oklch(93.6% 0.003 228.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D5DADC

   oklch(88.5% 0.006 223.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #BAC2C6

   oklch(80.9% 0.011 228.9)

5. Step 400

   400

   #96A3AA

   oklch(70.7% 0.018 231)

6. Step 500

   500

   #7C8C95

   oklch(63% 0.023 232.4)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #6B7C85

   oklch(57.6% 0.024 230.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #54636B

   oklch(49% 0.022 231.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #455158

   oklch(42.7% 0.019 233.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3A4348

    oklch(37.7% 0.015 232.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #22272A

    oklch(26.9% 0.009 234.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Battleship Grey with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.