Steel Mist
#c6ceda
Balanced gray with cool undertone for crisp UI sections
About Steel Mist
On my screen, Steel Mist reads like a lightly smoked gray that never fully turns chalky. It's a touch cooler than the dusty, muted grays, but it doesn't carry the clear blue lean you'd notice in Ephemeral Blue. Against white panels, it stays grounded, with a steady mid-light value and restrained saturation.
I like using it for dashboards and finance apps where secondary surfaces need structure without tipping into haze. It works well for card backgrounds, table strips, and form-field shells in healthcare web UIs and SaaS admin screens. Compared with Steam Bath, it feels a bit cleaner and more deliberate, less fogged glass. Compared with Memory Lane, it has slightly more presence and less dust, so layouts stay crisp.
Pair it with deeper slate text and borders; with stark whites it can look flatter than you expect, especially next to colder grays.
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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.
On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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