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Hex(DFDDDD)
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Hex(DFDDDD) ........................................................... 3
Conversions ....................................................... 4
Details ................................................................ 6
Harmonies ........................................................ 11
Previews ........................................................... 18
Color Blindness Simulation ........................... 21
CSS Examples .................................................. 24
 Color

Hex(DFDDDD)
Conversions

Conversions Part 1
Format Color

Hex DFDDDD

RGB 223, 221, 221

RGB Percent 87%, 87%, 87%

CMY 0.1255, 0.1333, 0.1333

CMYK 0.00, 0.01, 0.01, 0.13

HSL 0°, 3%, 87%

HSV 0°, 1%, 87%

XYZ 69.3390, 72.6213, 78.7694

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Conversions

Conversions Part 2
Format Color

RYB 223, 221, 221

Decimal 14671325

CIELab 88.27, 0.68, 0.23

CIELCh 88, 0.720, 18.630

72.6213, 0.3141,
Yxy
0.3290

Android 4292861405
(android.graphics.Color) (0xFFDFDDDD)

221.5980, -0.2948,
YUV
1.2296

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Details

The Hex color DFDDDD is a light color, and the

websafe version is hex CCCCCC. A complement of
this color would be DDDFDF, and the grayscale
version is DEDEDE.

A 20% lighter version of the original color is

FFFFFF, and A8A6A6 is the 20% darker color. If
you saturate the color by 10%, you get DFC7C7,
and if you desaturate by 10%, it is DFF3F3.

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Distribution

RGB RYB

Red (87%) Red (87%)

Green (87%) Yellow (87%)

Blue (87%) Blue (87%)

CMYK CMY

Cyan (0%) Cyan (13%)

Magenta (1%) Magenta (13%)

Yellow (1%) Yellow (13%)

Black (13%)

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Brightness & Saturation
Gradients
These gradients show how the Hex color DFDDDD
changes by changing the brightness by 10 percent. The
first figure shows a shift by +10% for each color and the
second figure -10%.

Similar to the brightness gradients but the following

saturation gradients show a change of the Hex color
DFDDDD by changing the saturation by 10% instead.

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 DFDDDD DFDDDD

FCFAFA C3C1C1

FFFFFF A8A6A6

8D8C8C

747272

5B5A5A

444242

2E2C2C

191818

000000

DFDDDD DFDDDD

DFC7C7 DFF3F3

DFB0B0 DFFFFF

DF9A9A

DF8484

DF6E6E

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 DF5757

DF4141

DF2B2B

DF1414

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Harmonies

Analogous
The analogous color harmony consists of three colors
that are next to each other on the color wheel.

DFDDDE

DFDDDD

DFDDDC

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Triad
The triadic color harmony groups three colors that are
evenly spaced from another and form a triangle on the
color wheel.

DFDDDD

DDDEDC

DDDEDF

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Complementary
The complementary color scheme is a pair of colors
which are on the opposite of each other on the color
wheel.

DFDDDD

DDDFDF

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Split Complementary
Split-complementary colors differ from the
complementary color scheme. The scheme consists of
three colors, the original color and two neighbors of the
complement color.

DCDEDE

DFDDDD

DCDEDD

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Square
The square scheme is like the rectangle color scheme,
but the four colors are evenly spaced on the color
wheel.

DFDDDD

DEDEDC

DCDEDE

DDDDDF

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Rectangle
The rectangle color scheme consists of four colors that
form a rectangle on the color wheel.

DFDDDD

DFDDDC

DCDEDE

DCDEDF

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Sweetspot
The sweet spot groups the original color and five
complimentary colors.

DFDDDD

FFFFFF

DFDDDF

808080

000000

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Previews

White Background

This preview shows how the Hex color DFDDDD looks

on a white background.

Color Contrast Check

Large Text (above 18pt) WCAG AA ✕ Fail

Any Text WCAG AA ✕ Fail
Large Text (above 18pt) WCAG AAA ✕ Fail
Any Text WCAG AAA ✕ Fail

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Black Background

This preview shows how the Hex color DFDDDD looks

on a black background.

Color Contrast Check

Large Text (above 18pt) WCAG AA ✓ Pass

Any Text WCAG AA ✓ Pass
Large Text (above 18pt) WCAG AAA ✓ Pass
Any Text WCAG AAA ✓ Pass

If you want to check with other color combinations, try

the Color Contrast Checker.

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Hex DFDDDD Background

This preview shows how black text looks on a

background with the Hex color DFDDDD.

This preview shows how white text looks on a

background with the Hex color DFDDDD.

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Color Blindness
Simulation

Color vision deficiency is a very complex topic, and I

could not describe the different causes any better than
Wikipedia does, so if you want to learn more, you
should check out their article about color blindness.

Dichromacy
Original Color
DFDDDD

Protanopia
E1DCDD

Deuteranopia
F2D6DE

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 Tritanopia
E1DBEC

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Trichromacy
Original Color
DFDDDD

Protanomaly
E0DCDD

Deuteranomaly
EBD9DE

Tritanomaly
E0DCE7

Monochromacy
Original Color
DFDDDD

Achromatopsia
DEDEDE

Achromatomaly
DEDEDE

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CSS Examples

Text
The CSS property to change the color of the text to Hex
DFDDDD is called "color". The color property can be set
on classes, ids or directly on the HTML element.

This example shows how text in the color #DFDDDD

looks like.

.text, #text, p{
color:#DFDDDD
}

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If you want to add a text shadow in that color use the
text-shadow property, you can generate a text shadow
directly with our CSS Text Shadow Generator.

Here
Here you
you see
see how
how black
black text
text with
with aa 44 pixel
pixel #DFDDDD
#DFDDDD
colored
colored shadow
shadow looks
looks like.
like.

.shadow{ text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px #DFDDDD

}

Border
The CSS property to change the border of an element to
Hex DFDDDD is called "border". The border property
can be set on classes, ids or directly on the HTML
element.

This example shows the color as border, it can be

applied via the CSS property "border" or "border-
color".

.border, #border, table{ border:4px solid

#DFDDDD }

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If only the border color should be changed use the
property border-color.

.border{ border-color:#DFDDDD }

If you want to add a box shadow in that color use:

Here you see how a box with a 4 pixel #DFDDDD

colored shadow looks like.

.boxshadow{ -moz-box-shadow:4px 4px 4px

4px #DFDDDD; -webkit-box-shadow:4px 4px
4px 4px #DFDDDD; box-shadow:4px 4px 4px
4px #DFDDDD }

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Background
The CSS property to change the background color of an
element to Hex DFDDDD is called "background". The
background property can be set on classes, ids or
directly on the HTML element.

.background, #background, body{

background:#DFDDDD }

If only the background color should be changed can be

used:

.background{ background-color:#DFDDDD }

This example shows the color as background, it is

applied via the CSS property "background".

To optimize and compress your CSS code, you can use

our online CSS compressor and optimizer based on
csstidy. If you want to create a linear or radial gradient
as background or border, check our CSS Gradient
Generator.

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