#69656D

sRGB: 105 / 101 / 109
Color name: Alter Ego

Crystal visions surge toward distant shores
Secret gardens wander across quiet meadows
Wandering dreams shatter the chains of fate

The hex code for Alter Ego is #69656D. It belongs to the violet family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 105 red, 101 green and 109 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 270.0° lands in the violet region. Its 3.8% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 41.2% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (5.70:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 105, 101, 109
HSL: 270.00°, 3.81%, 41.18%
HSV / HSB: 270.00°, 7.34%, 42.75%
CMYK (approx.): 3.67%, 7.34%, 0.00%, 57.25%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 13.239, 13.415, 16.360
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 43.382, 3.231, -3.937
WCAG relative luminance: 0.13415
24-bit decimal: 6907245

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #69656D in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 3.68:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 5.70:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#696D65 sits half a turn (180°) from #69656D on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#69656D #696D65

Analogous

#65656D and #6D656D sit 30° to either side of #69656D. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#65656D #69656D #6D656D

Triadic

#69656D, #6D6965 and #656D69 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#69656D #6D6965 #656D69

Split complementary

Start at #69656D and look across the wheel. #6D6D65 and #656D65 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#69656D #6D6D65 #656D65

Square

Starting with #69656D, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #6D6565, #696D65, then #656D6D. Across the square, #69656D pairs with #696D65, and #6D6565 with #656D6D.

#69656D #6D6565 #696D65 #656D6D

Tetradic

#69656D and #696D65 are opposites, as are #6D6569 and #656D69. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#69656D #6D6569 #696D65 #656D69

Tints

Mixing #69656D with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #87848A, keeps 80% of the original. By #E1E0E2, the mixture is 80% white.

#69656D #87848A #A5A3A7 #C3C1C5 #E1E0E2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #69656D with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #545157, keeps 80% of the original. By #151416, the mixture is 80% black.

#69656D #545157 #3F3D41 #2A282C #151416 #000000

Tones

Mixing #69656D with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6E6A71, keeps 80% of the original. By #7B7B7C, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#69656D #6E6A71 #727075 #777578 #7B7B7C #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#69656D

RGB

rgb(105 101 109)

HSL

hsl(270.000 3.810% 41.176%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #69656D;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#69656D uses 105 red, 101 green and 109 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 41.2%

Green 39.6%

Blue 42.7%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #69656D is 3.7% cyan, 7.3% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 57.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 3.7%

Magenta 7.3%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 57.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #666666. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #666 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #69656D when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #666666, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #666666 Nearest web-safe: #666666

Gradient to complement

#69656D #69666C #69686A #696969 #696A68 #696C66 #696D65

Color vision previews

Compare how #69656D appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#64666D

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#65676D

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#696668

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#66666D

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#66666D

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#69656B

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#666666

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#68666A

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.14126 G 0.13014 B 0.15293

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.40903 G 0.39661 B 0.42501

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.13929 G 0.13051 B 0.15108

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.308 y 0.312 Y 13.415

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 58.824 M % 60.392 Y % 57.255

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

01101001 01100101 01101101