Silver Chalice#ACACAC, a light gray

At a glanceSilver Chalice is #ACACAC, oklch(74.4% 0 0), a light gray, a pure neutral with zero chroma. Anything goes with a neutral, and every color is safe next to it. Its own system still ships four ready signals: a warm vivid red #EF005F, a warm bold amber #FDB408, a cool-leaning vivid green #00ED81, and a cool vivid blue #006AEA. Reach for it as a neutral, and it takes black text at AA contrast and prints exactly on coated presses.
Color codes

Silver Chalice in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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Color family

What kind of neutral is Silver Chalice?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is Silver Chalice's, measured rather than asserted.

Silver Chalice is achromatic. That means no hue at all. Its red, green, and blue channels are equal, so there's no direction for a hue to point in. Only lightness. Munsell writes that as value 6.9 with chroma 0 (chroma is how vivid a color is). ISCC-NBS, the naming standard built on top of Munsell, files it under light gray.

Because there's no hue to reproduce, a neutral is the one kind of color that survives almost any conversion unchanged. No gamut (the range of colors a screen or a press can actually show) can clip a hue that isn't there.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Tints & shades

Shades of Silver Chalice, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #ACACAC. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, silver-chalice-400.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

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Paste any color. The whole system comes back, contrast-checked before you see it.

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The window on the right was generated from #ACACAC, like this whole page.

Accessibility

Is Silver Chalice accessible? Contrast with other neutrals

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #ACACAC clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 64 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Rhapsody Palette

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Run #ACACAC against the colors you actually ship, every pairing and any target, and export it: exact ratios, the AA tier, APCA, in one file.

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The audit on the right was calibrated from #ACACAC, like this whole page.

Print

Silver Chalice in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Every held press standard prints this color exactly as it is.

In CMYK, #ACACAC is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK held to prints the color exactly.

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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Silver Chalices

Colors similar to Silver Chalice

Here are other colors similar to Silver Chalice along with accessible text pairings and whether or not they're print-safe. Explore Grayscale

Dark GrayDark Gray#A9A9A9black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
DawnDawn#A6A29Ablack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Cotton SeedCotton Seed#C2BDB6black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
SilverSilver#C0C0C0black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Silver SandSilver Sand#BFC1C2black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Gray NickelGray Nickel#C3C3BDblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
CloudCloud#C7C4BFblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Light GrayLight Gray#D3D3D3black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Pairings

Colors that go with Silver Chalice

Anything. A pure neutral has no complement and nothing sits across the wheel from it, so every color is safe next to #ACACAC. If you want ready-made signals, its system ships four:

Use them as they are for status and interface work, or bring any brand color you already have; the gray will hold it.

Downloads

Take Silver Chalice with you

The work on this page doesn't stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.

Silver Chalice color codes: hex #ACACAC, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of Silver Chalice, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
Reach for the right depth instead of the one you have.
Silver Chalice paired with a warm vivid red #EF005F, a warm bold amber #FDB408, a cool-leaning vivid green #00ED81: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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This page's whole theme is built from one color. Palette does the same for yours: every step calibrated, every pairing checked, press included.

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