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RAL Colour 7012

◾ Conversion chart
HEX #646A6C (More info)
CMYK 30 / 10 / 10 / 70 (More info)
RGB87 93 94 (More info)
RAL 7012

Basalt grey

This RAL 7012 Colour is presented to you as a part of grey hues assortment on the RAL Classic colour chart. You will notice that all of these grouped colours follow this specific designation, which is based on four-digit number in combination with the letters "RAL". This is why grey colours are sequentialy coded under 7xxxx, where 7 is a system code number (1: yellow, 2: orange, 3: red, 4: purple, 5: blue, 6: green, 7: grey, 8: brown and 9: white and black shades).

The name Basalt grey actually serves as additional, auxiliary designation, making the colour easier to remember. This naming system also provides additonal quality assurance preventing erroneous colour assigment due to number transposition.

On this particular hue range, in addition to 'basalt grey', you will find hand-picked colour tones selected by RAL institute design experts. This grey colour assortment holds another 37 excellent tones (making a total of 38 unique colour samples). You can click here for a list of grey hues, or open a full chart of 215 RAL Classic colours.

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RAL to CMYK conversion chart

◾ RAL 7012 to CMYK

In the CMYK colour system the RAL 7012 is composed by combining four primary tones of pigment. To achieve this exclusive "basalt grey" colour tone, out of 100% maximum colour components, 30% cyan, 10% magenta, 10% yellow and 70% key (black) are used.
You can immediately see this result on this computer simulated CMYK diagram.
The mixture of these primary colours blends in the middle on a square space where all four different colour hue sheets overlap.

C M K Y 30% 10% 10% 70%

◾ RAL 7012 to RGB

The conversion of RAL 7012 into RGB colour space requres specific composition of red, green, and blue primary colours. To construct hue matching "basalt grey" colour from the RAL chart as close as possible, we use the following values ranging from 0 to 255 on the RGB colour system: 87 red, 93 green and 94 blue.
The three circle RGB diagram here provides illustrative example showing how blue value stands out just enough in comparison to red and green to construct this unique tone of colour. The RAL colour equivalent emerges in the very center, where all three primary colour circles overlap and combine.

87 93 94 R G B
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RAL Colour scheme generator

While colors below are auto-selected, it is still performed in a very scientific manner. You see, there is a color theory, that helps to pick visually appealing companions to each color based on their distance on the color wheel. With this in mind, we can have very satisfying results, even though our initial color spectrum is only limited to 215 colors from the original RAL Classic collection.

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