Color #FEFEFE

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Information about #FEFEFE color

Basic facts about this digital color

In the Register's classification, #FEFEFE belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, featuring Desaturated and Luminous brightness. The mix behind it: rgb(254, 254, 254) — 99.6% red, 99.6% green, 99.6% blue; the print equivalent is CMYK 0 / 0 / 0 / 0. New to color codes? See our guide to RGB color codes.

#FEFEFE is a softly muted near-white neutral that is nearly as bright as white. In practice it works well for minimalist layouts, soft backgrounds and pastel palettes. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Pale Grey (#FDFDFE). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Romance (#FFFEFD) and Splashed White (#FEFDFF).

Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (254 each), placing #FEFEFE exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #FEFEFE: 20.8:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.0:1 for white. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.

#FEFEFE color variations

View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.

#FEFEFE color tints

Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.

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White

White

White

White

White

#FEFEFE color shades

Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.

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Chinese Silver

#999999

#666666

Dark Charcoal

Black

#FEFEFE color tones

Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.

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#E5E5E5

Chinese Silver

#B2B2B2

#999999

Grey

Why this page shows fewer blocks

#FEFEFE belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, and greyscale colors have no hue. Hue is an angle on the color wheel, and that angle only exists when a color leans toward one primary more than the others. Here all three channels are equal (R = G = B), so there is nothing to lean and no angle to measure.

Everything built on rotating that angle therefore has nothing to rotate. A complementary color is the hue 180° away — for a grey, that is the same grey. The same goes for analogous, triadic, tetradic and square harmonies. Rather than show seven identical swatches, the register leaves the Hues variation strip and the whole Harmonies section out.

What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints, shades and tones still work, because they move the color up and down the scale instead of around the wheel. So do the nearest named colors, the conversions and the adjacent color codes.

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