Information about Luxury White color

#FAFAFA - Luxury White color image

Basic facts about this digital color

In the Register's classification, #FAFAFA ("Luxury White") belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, featuring Desaturated and Luminous brightness. The mix behind it: rgb(250, 250, 250) — 98% red, 98% green, 98% blue; the print equivalent is CMYK 0 / 0 / 0 / 2. New to color codes? See our guide to RGB color codes.

#FAFAFA is a quiet, subdued whisper-light 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 Guyabano (#F8F8F8). Its next-closest registered neighbors are White Wash (#FAF9FE) and Pastel White (#FAF8F6).

Technically, #FAFAFA is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 250, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, black text works best on #FAFAFA: 20.1:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.0:1 for white. The name "Luxury White" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.

Luxury White color variations

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

Why this page shows fewer blocks

Luxury White 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

Nearest named colors to Luxury White

The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.

Guyabano color link
Guyabano

#F8F8F8

White Wash color link
White Wash

#FAF9FE

Pastel White color link
Pastel White

#FAF8F6

Lotion color link
Lotion

#FEFDFA

Snow color link
Snow

#FFFAFA

Soft White color link
Soft White

#FBFAF5

Ceramic color link
Ceramic

#FCFFF9

Baby Powder color link
Baby Powder

#FEFEFA

Ghost White color link
Ghost White

#F8F8FF

Black Haze color link
Black Haze

#F6F7F7

Conversions between color systems and etc.

  • HEX#FAFAFA
  • RGB250, 250, 250
  • CMYK0, 0, 0, 2
  • CSSrgb(250, 250, 250)
  • HSL0°, 0%, 98%
  • HSL Precise0°, 0%, 98.039%
  • HSV0°, 0%, 98%
  • HSB0°, 0%, 98%
  • Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.980
  • Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.980
  • Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.980
  • GLSLvec3(0.980, 0.980, 0.980)
  • GLSL with alphavec4(0.980, 0.980, 0.980, 1.000)
  • HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.980, 0.980, 0.980)
  • Percentage of Red in RGB98%
  • Percentage of Green in RGB98%
  • Percentage of Blue in RGB98%
  • Color FamilyGreyscale
  • Saturation FamilyDesaturated
  • Lightness FamilyLuminous
  • HEX IDFAFAFA
  • DECIMAL ID16448250
  • Name Length12
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