Light Gray — 11-step color scale

Light Gray (#d3d3d3) sits at 500, untouched. Every other step is Light Gray composited over white or black at a decreasing opacity, so the whole ramp stays in one hue family instead of drifting toward another color at the ends.

Open Light Gray in the generator

8%50

24%100

40%200

56%300

80%400

100%500your color

80%600

56%700

40%800

24%900

8%950

Each step is the base composited over white or black at the opacity shown.#d3d3d3

For text that needs to pass AA on white, 800, 900, 950 clear the 4.5:1 line. On a dark surface, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700 do.

Semantic colors from Light Gray

Success, warning, error and the rest are derived from Light Gray itself, then checked so they stay distinguishable from the base — and from each other — under the three types of color blindness. The distance below is CIEDE2000 after each simulation.

Derived from #d3d3d3

Suggested	Protanopia	Deuteranopia	Tritanopia
success#9bb893	15.5	14.4	15.0
warning#cda48b	16.8	16.7	21.7
error#906260	33.9	31.2	37.3
discovery#a8aad4	17.5	17.9	12.4
info#80baba	8.3	12.1	22.5
neutral#af9d9d	13.9	13.3	16.9

CIEDE2000 distance from the base under each simulation. The lowest of the three decides, and a dot marks the ones that land under 11.

The info suggestion starts out colliding with Light Gray under Protanopia — ΔE₀₀ 8.3, below the 11 threshold — so the engine shifts its hue within the info family until the pair pulls apart again.

Export Light Gray

The same five formats the generator produces, for this scale. Copy any block, or open the tool to tweak the ramp first.

CSS

:root {
  --color-color-50: #fbfbfb;
  --color-color-100: #f4f4f4;
  --color-color-200: #ededed;
  --color-color-300: #e6e6e6;
  --color-color-400: #dcdcdc;
  --color-color-500: #d3d3d3;
  --color-color-600: #a9a9a9;
  --color-color-700: #767676;
  --color-color-800: #545454;
  --color-color-900: #333333;
  --color-color-950: #111111;
}

SCSS

$color-color-50: #fbfbfb;
$color-color-100: #f4f4f4;
$color-color-200: #ededed;
$color-color-300: #e6e6e6;
$color-color-400: #dcdcdc;
$color-color-500: #d3d3d3;
$color-color-600: #a9a9a9;
$color-color-700: #767676;
$color-color-800: #545454;
$color-color-900: #333333;
$color-color-950: #111111;

JavaScript

export const color = {
  50: '#fbfbfb',
  100: '#f4f4f4',
  200: '#ededed',
  300: '#e6e6e6',
  400: '#dcdcdc',
  500: '#d3d3d3',
  600: '#a9a9a9',
  700: '#767676',
  800: '#545454',
  900: '#333333',
  950: '#111111',
};

JSON

{
  "color": {
    "50": "#fbfbfb",
    "100": "#f4f4f4",
    "200": "#ededed",
    "300": "#e6e6e6",
    "400": "#dcdcdc",
    "500": "#d3d3d3",
    "600": "#a9a9a9",
    "700": "#767676",
    "800": "#545454",
    "900": "#333333",
    "950": "#111111"
  }
}

Figma Variables

{
  "color": {
    "50": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.984313725490196,
          0.984313725490196,
          0.984313725490196
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FBFBFB"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:1",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "100": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.9568627450980393,
          0.9568627450980393,
          0.9568627450980393
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#F4F4F4"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:2",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "200": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.9294117647058824,
          0.9294117647058824,
          0.9294117647058824
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#EDEDED"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:3",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "300": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.9019607843137255,
          0.9019607843137255,
          0.9019607843137255
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#E6E6E6"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:4",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.8627450980392157,
          0.8627450980392157,
          0.8627450980392157
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#DCDCDC"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:5",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "500": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.8274509803921568,
          0.8274509803921568,
          0.8274509803921568
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#D3D3D3"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:6",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "600": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.6627450980392157,
          0.6627450980392157,
          0.6627450980392157
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#A9A9A9"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:7",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "700": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.4627450980392157,
          0.4627450980392157,
          0.4627450980392157
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#767676"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:8",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "800": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.32941176470588235,
          0.32941176470588235,
          0.32941176470588235
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#545454"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:9",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "900": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.2,
          0.2,
          0.2
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#333333"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:10",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "950": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.06666666666666667,
          0.06666666666666667,
          0.06666666666666667
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#111111"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:11",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    }
  },
  "$extensions": {
    "com.figma.modeName": "Value"
  }
}

Open Light Gray in the generator How the scale is built