RAL 000 65 00 — Mortar grey
Light grey, light reflectance value of 36.7 per cent. This is the level of street furniture, noise barriers, lighting columns and bus shelters — the grey you see every day without registering it.
| Colour code | RAL 000 65 00 |
| Name | Mortar grey |
| Collection | RAL Design System plus |
| Colour group | Grijsas (000) |
| Lightness | L* 65 |
| Chroma | C*ab 00 |
| Lab | 64,9 · -0,7 · -1,0 |
| Hex (indicative) | #9D9D9F |
| Light reflectance value (LRV) | 36.69— official RAL value |
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About RAL 000 65 00
Outdoors the requirements differ from indoors. A surface that stands in wind and weather for years collects deposits, algae and exhaust grime. Too light and the soiling shows; too dark and every scratch in the coating jumps out. The optimum lies around this lightness level, and that explains why public space is so grey: it is the colour that stays acceptable longest without maintenance.
On top of that, grey relates to everything. Street furniture stands in front of changing façades, in changing greenery, against changing skies. A colour with direction clashes somewhere; a neutral grey at this level never does.
Indoors the same shade works as a quiet wall colour where colour elsewhere in the room should take the attention. With one warning: under cool artificial light, light neutral grey quickly tips towards clinical. Warmer light, or a neighbouring hue with chroma 05, prevents that.
| English | Mortar grey |