Information about Cultured color
Basic facts about this digital color
#F5F5F5 presents itself as a muted, almost neutral near-white neutral — one that radiates an almost-white brightness. It is a natural fit for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Black Haze (#F6F7F7). Slightly further away sit Anti Flash White (#F2F3F4) and Quarter Alabaster (#F7F6F2).
Technically, #F5F5F5 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 245, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 19.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.1:1. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Cultured" in the Register.
Cultured color variations
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Cultured color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Cultured color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Cultured color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Cultured 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.
How the register classifies colors · All greyscale colors in the register
Alternatives to Cultured color
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Nearest named colors to Cultured
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#F6F7F7
#F2F3F4
#F7F6F2
#F7F9F5
#F4F5F0
#F8F8F8
#F4F3F0
#FAF8F6
#F5F3EF
#FAF9F5
#FBF8F4
#F9F8F0
Cultured color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#F5F5F5
- RGB245, 245, 245
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 4
- CSSrgb(245, 245, 245)
- HSL0°, 0%, 96%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 96.078%
- HSV0°, 0%, 96%
- HSB0°, 0%, 96%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.961
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.961
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.961
- GLSLvec3(0.961, 0.961, 0.961)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.961, 0.961, 0.961, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.961, 0.961, 0.961)
- Percentage of Red in RGB96.1%
- Percentage of Green in RGB96.1%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB96.1%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDF5F5F5
- DECIMAL ID16119285
- Name Length8
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- Counting from2025-01-01
