26 Step Gray Scale
A Quick Way To Discover If Your Graphic Display (CRT, LCD or whatever) Was Worth All Those $
The 26 Step Gray Scale
You should be able to discern all 26 steps here. If you can't, you'll be missing out on subtle visual information in the shadows or highlights of that video, movie or favourite image of your lover!
Here's the Hex and RGB codes used for each of the 26 linear steps on Swami's Gray Scale ...
| Shade | Hex Code | RGB values |
| Black | # 000000 | 0, 0, 0 |
| Grey | # 0A0A0A | 10, 10, 10 |
| Grey | # 141414 | 20, 20, 20 |
| Grey | # 1F1F1F | 31, 31, 31 |
| Grey | # 292929 | 41, 41, 41 |
| Grey | # 333333 | 51, 51, 51 |
| Grey | # 3D3D3D | 61, 61, 61 |
| Grey | # 474747 | 71, 71, 71 |
| Grey | # 525252 | 82, 82, 82 |
| Grey | # 5C5C5C | 92, 92, 92 |
| Grey | # 666666 | 102,102,102 |
| Grey | # 707070 | 112,112,112 |
| Grey | # 7A7A7A | 122,122,122 |
| Grey | # 858585 | 133,133,133 |
| Grey | # 8F8F8F | 143,143,143 |
| Grey | # 999999 | 153,153,153 |
| Grey | # A3A3A3 | 163,163,163 |
| Grey | # ADADAD | 173,173,173 |
| Grey | # B8B8B8 | 184,184,184 |
| Grey | # C2C2C2 | 194,194,194 |
| Grey | # CCCCCC | 204,204,204 |
| Grey | # D6D6D6 | 214,214,214 |
| Grey | # E0E0E0 | 224,224,224 |
| Grey | # EBEBEB | 235,235,235 |
| Grey | # F5F5F5 | 245,245,245 |
| White | # FFFFFF | 255,255,255 |
| Background | # CCCCCC | 204,204,204 |
One can also use Calum Matheson's Brilliant Colourificator (PC only) to check these codes ... AND any colour on your desktop. It's brilliant!
To run it though, you'll need Visual Basic 6 runtime files on your system ... Ask Bill Gates nicely for his vbrun60sp6.exe ...
3./ You can also check your Display using Nokia's Monitor Brightness Test! This is especially good for showing the very fine detail in the black end of the Gray scale ... Brightness Test Field.
Can you see all the lower percentages here?
Roll on OLED's!
Cheers
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