White #FFFFFF

About this color

#FFFFFF is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 100%, its chroma 0.000. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color White. Black text reads best on it, at 21.00:1.

Colors that go with White

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

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

Color palettes with White

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

• Aerial Sail
• Cumulus Drift
• Kite Afternoon
• Tarn Climb
• Opal Daybreak
• Binary Uplink
• Fig Jam
• Snowdrift Hush

Similar named colors

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

• Pale Grey #FDFDFE ΔE 0.006
• Snow #FFFAFA ΔE 0.012
• Mint Cream #F5FFFA ΔE 0.015
• Cultured #F8F9FA ΔE 0.018
• Azure #F0FFFF ΔE 0.019
• Floral White #FFFAF0 ΔE 0.020
• Ivory #FFFFF0 ΔE 0.020
• Ghost White #F8F8FF ΔE 0.021

More about White

• Shades of white
• Colors that go with White
• What White means

How to make White

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 0.000 from White. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for White 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 White

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)

   #FFFFFF

   oklch(100% 0 0)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EAEAEA

   oklch(93.7% 0 0)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D9D9D9

   oklch(88.5% 0 0)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C0C0C0

   oklch(80.8% 0 0)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A0A0A0

   oklch(70.6% 0 0)

6. Step 500

   500

   #898989

   oklch(63% 0 0)

7. Step 600

   600

   #737373

   oklch(55.6% 0 0)

8. Step 700

   700

   #616161

   oklch(49.3% 0 0)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4F4F4F

   oklch(42.8% 0 0)

10. Step 900

    900

    #414141

    oklch(37.5% 0 0)

11. Step 950

    950

    #262626

    oklch(26.9% 0 0)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

White 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.