Pewter color
Pewter is a soft mid gray with a faint blue cast, the color of the old tin alloy. Its hex code is #8A8D8F.
- Hex
- #8A8D8F
- RGB
- 138, 141, 143
- OKLCH
- 64.2% 0.005 236.5
- Value
- 6 of 10
- Family
- Neutral
Is pewter warm or cool?
Close to neutral: it has so little color that it reads as neither, though it leans a little cool. It is a mid-tone color, value 6 of 10. More in warm and cool colors.
Pewter tints, tones and shades
A tint adds white, a tone adds gray of the same lightness, and a shade adds black. Each row starts with pewter itself.
Tints
#8A8D8F#A0A3A4#B7B9BA#CFD0D1#E7E7E8
Tones
#8A8D8F#8A8D8E#8B8D8E#8B8D8D#8C8D8D
Shades
#8A8D8F#696B6C#494B4C#2C2D2D#111212
The opposite of pewter
Opposite pewter on the color wheel sits puce, #93735F. Side by side, each makes the other look stronger; mixed, they turn each other gray.
Pewter
Puce
Colors that go with pewter
With its opposite
#8A8D8F · #E1E1E2 · #87776D · #93735F · #261D18
With its neighbors
#898D8E · #8A8D8F · #8B8C8F · #DBDCDC · #2C2D2D
One color, light to dark
#EDEDED · #8B8D8D · #8A8D8F · #3A3B3C · #111212
Pewter in paintings
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