What colors make White?
On this page, you will find the White Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of White, color palettes, and related colors.
White color code
The White hex code is #FFFFFF. The White hex code can be quantified in RGB values which represent the amount of Red, Green and Blue color channels. The RGB value is an estimated amount of red, green, and blue color to create the color White. The RGB estimate is:
- Red: #FF in Hex amounts to 100%
- Green: #FF in Hex amounts to 100%
- Blue: #FF in Hex amounts to 100%
White in HSL
HSL is an acronym which stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. HSL was developed for television and standardized for computer displays.
Hue is the perceived color name. Saturation is the "colorfulness" relative to the color's brightness. Brightness is our human eye's quantifed perception of the spectral light distribution. Lightness is the color brightness relative to a perceived similarly illuminated white.
Brightness and "colorfulness" are absolute measures, while Lightness and and Saturation are relative measures.
White is 0deg, 0%, 100% HSL.
- Hue: 0deg
- Saturation: 0%
- Light: 100%
White color in CMYK color model
The CMYK color model is commonly used in printing. The CMYK acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. Where key is black. Since the black color is the absence of light, the CMYK is a subtractive color model. White light minus red is cyan, minus green is magenta, minus blue is yellow.
White is 0% 0% 0% 0% CMYK.
- Cyan: 0%
- Magenta: 0%
- Yellow: 0%
- Key (or Black): 0%
Different shades of White
According to its HSL value, White contains about 100% of brightness.
Below are the all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:
- Hex HSL CMYK
- #E5E5E5 0deg, 0%, 90% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #CCCCCC 0deg, 0%, 80% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #B2B2B2 0deg, 0%, 70% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #999999 0deg, 0%, 60% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #7F7F7F 0deg, 0%, 50% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #666666 0deg, 0%, 40% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #4C4C4C 0deg, 0%, 30% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #333333 0deg, 0%, 20% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #191919 0deg, 0%, 10% 0%, 0%, 0%, 99%
Accessibility tips when using the color White
Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using White on text, we recommend you use black for the background.
The reason White contrasts better with a black background is because White has a degree of brightness of 100% which provides better contrast on a dark background.
The White color palette hex codes.
There are a few color palettes available when working with White, but below is our favorite:
By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from White
- Black
#000000 - Carbon
#333333 - Granite Gray
#676767 - Spanish Gray
#989898 - Silverback
#CBCBCB
Below is a series of palettes generated from the color White:
Palette variances of 3 colors:
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
Palette variances of 4 colors:
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
Palette variances of 5 colors:
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
Palette variances of 6 colors:
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
- #FFFFFF
You will find specific color values of White on this page. For example, the White HEX color code is #FFFFFF. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for White are:
- Brilliance color code is (253.0, 253.0, 253.0).
- Emptiness color code is (252.0, 253.0, 252.0).
- Polar Bear In A Blizzard color code is (252.0, 255.0, 255.0).
- Snowman color code is (254.0, 250.0, 251.0).
- Baby Powder color code is (254.0, 254.0, 250.0).
- Lotion color code is (254.0, 253.0, 250.0).
- White Porcelain color code is (248.0, 251.0, 248.0).
- Snow color code is (255.0, 250.0, 250.0).
- Dr. White color code is (250.0, 250.0, 250.0).
- Ceramic color code is (252.0, 255.0, 249.0).
These values can help you match the specific shade and find complementary colors. Looking for a different shade of white? Our color mixer expertly generates nine different shades and eighteen color variances.
At ourpastimes.com, we are a creative team of product designers, engineers, and data scientists who want to make the internet a better place. We have poured over color theory, the math is tougher than you think, and built a showcase for color combinations.
We started by building a great virtual color mixer. We hope everyone has seen a color wheel. Personally, I loved the color wheel in my art classroom growing up. The acrylic paints like Titanium White, Burnt sienna, Dioxazine Purple make combining colors visceral and our color mixer virtually offers that visceral feeling of color mixing paints. Use our color mixer to build your next color scheme!
The color wheel pickers showcase 12 main colors. The three primary colors are red, green, and blue. When combined together, the primary colors create pure white light. Secondary colors result from mixing two primary colors:
- Red and Green make Yellow.
- Green and Blue make Cyan.
- Blue and Red make Magenta .
Combining a secondary color and a primary color yields tertiary colors. There are six tertiary colors. The six color names are orange, chartreuse green, spring green, azure, violet and rose. Colors continue to expand, for example, halfway between blue and violet is indigo, color code #4B0082, and violet is halfway between blue and purple.
So, the color wheel includes twelve main colors: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse green, green, spring green, cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, and rose.
But how do you mix paint color? To mix acrylic paint to make gold you mix in a small quantity of brown paint (approximately one part brown to 10 parts yellow). Our color mixer is expert at mixing color by parts. Adjust the color levels with an easy toggle and we handle the math to generate the resulting hex code, RGB and HSL.
Included in our color pages are color palettes, we generate color combinations between three and six colors. We call each different color mixture “palette variances.” Each color palette variance includes eighteen color mixes with HEX code displayed.
A third component we provide on this page is color shades. For example, shades of White include Brilliance, Emptiness, Polar Bear In A Blizzard, Snowman, Baby Powder, Lotion, White Porcelain, Snow, Dr. White, and Ceramic. We offer nine tints and shades for each color. A color shade is found by adjusting the color saturation to find a darker hue. A color tint is a lighter color. For example, pink is a tint of red.
