White Smoke #F5F5F5

About this color

#F5F5F5 is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.000. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color White Smoke. Black text reads best on it, at 19.26:1.

Colors that go with White Smoke

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

White Smoke 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 Smoke

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

• Harbour Morning
• Anchor Swell
• Driftwood Tide
• Kelp and Tidal
• Coral and Anchor
• Breakwater and Seaglass
• Office Folder
• Office and Cabinet

Similar named colors

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

• Cultured #F8F9FA ΔE 0.012
• Very Light Pink #FFF4F2 ΔE 0.013
• Anti-Flash White #EDF2F4 ΔE 0.014
• Alice Blue #F0F8FF ΔE 0.014
• Ghost White #F8F8FF ΔE 0.014
• Seashell #FFF5EE ΔE 0.015
• Lavender Blush #FFF0F5 ΔE 0.018
• Snow #FFFAFA ΔE 0.020

More about White Smoke

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make White Smoke

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

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for White Smoke 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 Smoke

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)

   #F5F5F5

   oklch(97% 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 Smoke 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.