Cultured #F8F9FA

About this color

#F8F9FA is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 98%, its chroma 0.002. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Cultured. Black text reads best on it, at 19.92:1.

Colors that go with Cultured

Matches found by rotating Cultured around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Cultured is close to neutral, so it has no hue to rotate. It pairs with almost any color; try the palettes below.

Color palettes with Cultured

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Cultured, closest first.

• Dove and Drizzle
• Snowdrift Hush
• Flurry and Alpine
• Frost and Fjord
• Trust and Capital
• Opal Daybreak
• Summit and Harbour
• Summit Briefing

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Cultured, with their ΔE distance.

• Ghost White #F8F8FF ΔE 0.008
• Snow #FFFAFA ΔE 0.010
• White Smoke #F5F5F5 ΔE 0.012
• Pale Grey #FDFDFE ΔE 0.013
• Alice Blue #F0F8FF ΔE 0.013
• Very Light Pink #FFF4F2 ΔE 0.015
• Mint Cream #F5FFFA ΔE 0.016
• Azure #F0FFFF ΔE 0.016

More about Cultured

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Cultured

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 1 part white

Recipe result: #FFFFFF, a difference of ΔE 0.018 from Cultured. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Cultured in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Cultured

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 50.

1. Step 50

   50 (this color)

   #F8F9FA

   oklch(98.2% 0.002 247.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E9EAEA

   oklch(93.6% 0.001 197.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D8D9DA

   oklch(88.5% 0.002 247.8)

4. Step 300

   300

   #BFC1C2

   oklch(81% 0.003 228.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9FA1A3

   oklch(70.8% 0.004 247.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #878A8C

   oklch(63.2% 0.005 236.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #717476

   oklch(55.7% 0.005 236.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #5F6163

   oklch(49.1% 0.004 247.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4D4F51

   oklch(42.6% 0.004 247.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #404243

    oklch(37.8% 0.003 228.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #262627

    oklch(26.9% 0.002 286.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Cultured with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.