RAL 9011 Colour (Graphite black) - RAL White and black colours

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Window painted graphite black colour RAL 9011

RAL Colour 9011

◾ Conversion chart
HEX	#3E3F40 (More info)
CMYK	60 / 45 / 30 / 90 (More info)
RGB	39 41 43 (More info)
RAL	9011

Graphite black

This RAL 9011 Colour is presented to you as a part of white and black 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 white and black colours are sequentialy coded under 9xxxx, where 9 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 Graphite black 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 'graphite black', you will find hand-picked colour tones selected by RAL institute design experts. This white and black colour assortment holds another 13 excellent tones (making a total of 14 unique colour samples). You can click here for a list of white and black hues, or open a full chart of 215 RAL Classic colours.

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◾ RAL 9011 to CMYK

In the CMYK colour system the RAL 9011 is composed by combining four primary tones of pigment. To achieve this exclusive "graphite black" colour tone, out of 100% maximum colour components, 60% cyan, 45% magenta, 30% yellow and 90% 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.

◾ RAL 9011 to RGB

The conversion of RAL 9011 into RGB colour space requres specific composition of red, green, and blue primary colours. To construct hue matching "graphite black" colour from the RAL chart as close as possible, we use the following values ranging from 0 to 255 on the RGB colour system: 39 red, 41 green and 43 blue.
The three circle RGB diagram here provides illustrative example showing how these relatively low values comes together and constructs such dark, yet unique shade of colour. The RAL colour equivalent emerges in the very center, where all three primary colour circles overlap and combine.

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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.