Medium Grey #7D7F7C

About this color

#7D7F7C is a medium-dark close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 59%, its chroma 0.005. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Medium Grey. Black text reads best on it, at 5.19:1.

Colors that go with Medium Grey

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

Medium Grey is close to neutral, so it has no hue to rotate. It pairs with almost any color; try the palettes below.

Color palettes with Medium Grey

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

• Marble and Pewter
• Overcast Sky
• Granite Folder
• Steel Deck
• Paper Archive
• Sienna Patio
• Umber Workshop
• Champagne and Lace

Similar named colors

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

• Gray #808080 ΔE 0.008
• Steel Grey #6F828A ΔE 0.026
• Battleship Grey #6B7C85 ΔE 0.031
• Slate Gray #708090 ΔE 0.033
• Steel #738595 ΔE 0.037
• Battleship Gray #6C757D ΔE 0.041
• Brown Grey #8D8468 ΔE 0.043
• Light Slate Gray #778899 ΔE 0.043

More about Medium Grey

• Shades of gray
• What gray means

How to make Medium 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.

• 4 parts gray
• 1 part green
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #7E7F81, a difference of ΔE 0.008 from Medium Grey. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Medium 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 Medium 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 500.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F5F5F5

   oklch(97% 0 0)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E9EAE9

   oklch(93.6% 0.002 145.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D9D9D8

   oklch(88.5% 0.001 106.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C0C1BF

   oklch(81% 0.003 128.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9FA19F

   oklch(70.7% 0.004 145.5)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #7D7F7C

   oklch(59.4% 0.005 134.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #727471

   oklch(55.6% 0.005 134.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #5F615E

   oklch(49% 0.005 134.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4E4F4D

   oklch(42.6% 0.003 128.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #414240

    oklch(37.7% 0.004 128.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #262726

    oklch(27.1% 0.002 145.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Medium 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.