Pantone® Color of the Year 2021

Ultimate Gray & Illuminating

For 2021, Pantone named two colors together: Pantone® 17-5104 TCX Ultimate Gray and Pantone® 13-0647 TCX Illuminating. Below: HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK values, text contrast, palettes built on the color and the closest Pantone® C codes.

Note: Pantone® does not publish HEX values for its colors openly. The values here are screen approximations from community sources, not official Pantone® values. Pantone® is a trademark of Pantone LLC; this site is not affiliated with Pantone.

Ultimate Gray

Pantone® 17-5104 TCX

HEX#939597
RGBrgb(147, 149, 151)
HSLhsl(210, 2%, 58%)
CMYKcmyk(3%, 1%, 0%, 41%)

Unconfirmed Reference sites agree on #939597, but Pantone does not publish a HEX for this color openly and we found no second independent source. Treat it as a close guess.

Text contrast (WCAG 2)

White text on Ultimate Gray

3.01:1

AA normal: Fail · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Fail

Black text on Ultimate Gray

6.99:1

AA normal: Pass · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Fail

Color palettes based on Ultimate Gray

Complementary — Opposite colors on the color wheel

#939597
#969492

Analogous — Colors adjacent on the color wheel

#929694
#929696
#939597
#929296
#949296

Split Complementary — Base color + two adjacent to its complement

#939597
#969292
#969692

Triadic — Three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel

#939597
#969294
#949692

Monochromatic — Variations of lightness from the same hue

#191A1A
#4B4D4E
#7D8082
#B1B3B4
#E5E6E6

Closest Pantone® C colors

TCX is Pantone's textile system; these are the nearest print (C) codes from our library by Delta E (CIEDE2000). Lower is closer.

CSS

:root {
  --pantone-coy-2021-ultimate-gray: #939597;
}

.element {
  background-color: var(--pantone-coy-2021-ultimate-gray);
}

Illuminating

Pantone® 13-0647 TCX

HEX#F5DF4D
RGBrgb(245, 223, 77)
HSLhsl(52, 89%, 63%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 9%, 69%, 4%)

Unconfirmed Reference sites agree on #F5DF4D, but Pantone does not publish a HEX for this color openly and we found no second independent source. Treat it as a close guess.

Text contrast (WCAG 2)

White text on Illuminating

1.35:1

AA normal: Fail · AA large: Fail · AAA normal: Fail

Black text on Illuminating

15.54:1

AA normal: Pass · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Pass

Color palettes based on Illuminating