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Inspect Snow (#FFFAFA) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.

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Snow

Snow color values

Snow

#FFFAFA

Black text reads best on this background, at 20.31:1.

Snow is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #FFFAFA in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(255, 250, 250) and hsl(0, 100%, 99%). Perceptually it is a very light, near-neutral color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 99% and its chroma at 0.005. It carries almost no chroma, so it behaves as a neutral rather than as a hue, and belongs with the off-whites.

White text only reaches 1.03:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 20.31:1. Because it is this light, Snow works best as a page or card background with dark text over it.

The closest CSS named colors to Snow, measured with CIEDE2000, are White (#FFFFFF), WhiteSmoke (#F5F5F5), SeaShell (#FFF5EE). If Snow is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.

HEX

#FFFAFA

RGB

rgb(255, 250, 250)

HSL

hsl(0, 100%, 99%)

HWB

hwb(0 98% 0%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 2%, 2%, 0%)

LAB

lab(98.66 1.72 0.62)

LCH

lch(98.66 1.83 19.82)

OKLCH

oklch(98.89% 0.0053 17.25)

Is Snow accessible?

WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #FFFAFA white text measures 1.03:1 and black text 20.31:1, so black clears it and white does not.

White text on Snow

WCAG 2.2

1.03:1

APCA

Lc 0

Fails AA body text

Fails AAA body text

Fails AA large text

Black text on Snow

WCAG 2.2

20.31:1

APCA

Lc 103

Passes AA body text

Passes AAA body text

Passes AA large text

Check Snow against any other color in the contrast checker.

Tints and shades of Snow

Snow sits at 99% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it down to #070505, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.

Shades, toward black

#C6C1C1

20% darker

#908B8B

40% darker

#5D5959

60% darker

#2F2B2B

80% darker

#070505

100% darker

Build a full accessible scale from #FFFAFA in the shade generator.

How Snow looks with color blindness

The biggest shift is under protanopia, where #FFFAFA reads as #FBFBFA, 2.6 CIEDE2000 units away. If Snow is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.

Protanopia

#FBFBFA

Deuteranopia

#FCFBFA

Tritanopia

#FFFAFA

Achromatopsia

#FBFBFB