Snow color (#FFFAFA)
Snow is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword snow
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #FFFAFA, which is rgb(255, 250, 250) in RGB.
It is a very light neutral and a perceived lightness of 99% in OKLCH. On a snow background, black text gives the higher contrast at 20.30:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Snow color codes
| CSS name | snow |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #FFFAFA |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #FFFAFAFF |
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| RGB | rgb(255, 250, 250) |
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| HSL | hsl(0, 100%, 99%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(0, 2%, 100%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(98.9% 0.0053 17.2) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 2%, 2%, 0%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for snow used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of snow
Tints mix snow with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with snow
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Snow with color blindness
Approximately how snow appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using snow in CSS
.element {
color: snow;
background-color: #fffafa;
border-color: rgb(255 250 250 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(98.9% 0.0053 17.2);
}Similar named colors
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