Snow #FFFAFA

About this color

#FFFAFA is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 99%, its chroma 0.005. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Snow. Black text reads best on it, at 20.30:1.

Colors that go with Snow

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

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

Color palettes with Snow

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

• Carnation Corsage
• Velvet Carols
• Carnation Letter
• Fig Jam
• Linen Dance
• Tarn Climb
• Opal Daybreak
• Lavender Evening

Similar named colors

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

• Pale Grey #FDFDFE ΔE 0.008
• Cultured #F8F9FA ΔE 0.010
• White #FFFFFF ΔE 0.012
• Ghost White #F8F8FF ΔE 0.013
• Floral White #FFFAF0 ΔE 0.013
• Very Light Pink #FFF4F2 ΔE 0.015
• Seashell #FFF5EE ΔE 0.017
• Mint Cream #F5FFFA ΔE 0.017

More about Snow

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Snow

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 0.012 from Snow. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Snow 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 Snow

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)

   #FFFAFA

   oklch(98.9% 0.005 17.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EBE9E9

   oklch(93.6% 0.002 17.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DBD8D8

   oklch(88.5% 0.003 17.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C5BFBF

   oklch(81% 0.007 17.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A79E9E

   oklch(70.7% 0.011 17.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #928686

   oklch(63.1% 0.015 17.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #7C7070

   oklch(55.6% 0.015 17.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #695E5E

   oklch(49.2% 0.014 17.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #554C4D

   oklch(42.6% 0.012 10)

10. Step 900

    900

    #464040

    oklch(37.8% 0.008 17.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #292525

    oklch(26.9% 0.006 17.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Snow 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.