Pale Grey #FDFDFE

About this color

#FDFDFE is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 99%, its chroma 0.001. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Pale Grey. Black text reads best on it, at 20.65:1.

Colors that go with Pale Grey

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

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

Color palettes with Pale Grey

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

• Aerial Sail
• Cumulus Drift
• Kite Afternoon
• Tarn Climb
• Opal Daybreak
• Binary Uplink
• Snowdrift Hush
• Flurry and Alpine

Similar named colors

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

• White #FFFFFF ΔE 0.006
• Snow #FFFAFA ΔE 0.008
• Cultured #F8F9FA ΔE 0.013
• Mint Cream #F5FFFA ΔE 0.013
• Ghost White #F8F8FF ΔE 0.015
• Azure #F0FFFF ΔE 0.017
• Floral White #FFFAF0 ΔE 0.017
• Ivory #FFFFF0 ΔE 0.021

More about Pale Grey

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Pale Grey

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 0.006 from Pale Grey. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Grey 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 Pale Grey

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)

   #FDFDFE

   oklch(99.4% 0.001 286.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EAEAEA

   oklch(93.7% 0 0)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D9D9DA

   oklch(88.6% 0.001 286.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C0C0C1

   oklch(80.8% 0.001 286.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A0A0A2

   oklch(70.6% 0.003 286.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #89898B

   oklch(63.1% 0.003 286.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #737375

   oklch(55.6% 0.003 286.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #606063

   oklch(49% 0.005 286.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4F4F50

   oklch(42.8% 0.002 286.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #414143

    oklch(37.6% 0.003 286.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #262627

    oklch(26.9% 0.002 286.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale Grey 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.