CSS named colour

Snow

#fffafa

A CSS named colour: snow is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(255 250 250)
HSL: 0°, 100%, 99%
OKLCh: 98.9% 0.005 17.2

Snow in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#fffafa`
RGB	`rgb(255 250 250)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(255, 250, 250)`
RGB percent	`rgb(100% 98.04% 98.04%)`
HSL	`hsl(0 100% 99%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(0, 100%, 99%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(0, 2%, 100%)`
HWB	`hwb(0 98% 0%)`
Nearest name	`snow`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 2%, 2%, 0%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(98.894% 0.00534 17.247)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(98.894% 0.0051 0.00158)`
CIE LCh	`lch(98.661% 1.827 19.82)`
CIE Lab	`lab(98.661% 1.719 0.62)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.9966 0.9811 0.9807)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.9918 0.9795 0.9783)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 1 0.956 0.956)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.9268 0.9653 1.042)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(1.0, 0.98, 0.98)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(1.0, 0.956, 0.956)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(1.0, 0.98, 0.98, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(1.0, 0.956, 0.956, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(255, 250, 250)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(1.0, 0.98, 0.98)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(1.0, 0.956, 0.956)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(1.0, 0.98, 0.98, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(1.0, 0.98, 0.98, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(1.0, 0.98, 0.98)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(1.0, 0.98, 0.98, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(1.0, 0.956, 0.956)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(1.0f, 0.98f, 0.98f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(255, 250, 250, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(1.0f, 0.956f, 0.956f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(255, 250, 250, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(1, 0.98, 0.98, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFFFFAFA)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(255, 250, 250)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 1, green: 0.98, blue: 0.98)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 1, green: 0.98, blue: 0.98, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xFFFAFA`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFFFFAFA`
Array 0–1	`[1, 0.98, 0.98]`
Array 0–255	`[255, 250, 250]`
Decimal integer	`16775930`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Snow on white	1.03:1	Fail	Lc 0	Not usable for text
Snow on black	20.31:1	AAA	Lc 105	Body text at any size

Snow text on a white background

Snow text on a black background

White text on Snow

Black text on Snow

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#faf6f6
100#f0ecec
200#dfdbdb
300#c9c4c4
400#aca8a8
500#8e8a8a
600#747070
700#5d5a5a
800#4a4747
900#3a3737
950#211f1f

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#fffbfb
Tint 2#fffcfc
Tint 3#fffcfc
Tint 4#fffdfd
Tint 5#fffefe
Shade 1#c8c4c4
Shade 2#949191
Shade 3#636161
Shade 4#363535
Shade 5#0f0e0e

Colours that work with Snow

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#f8fdfd
#fafcf9
#f9fcff
#fefafc
#fffaf8

Closest CSS names

snowexact match
whiteΔEok 0.012
ghostwhiteΔEok 0.013
floralwhiteΔEok 0.013
seashellΔEok 0.017
mintcreamΔEok 0.017