A pinkish white, black text passes AA
What color is snow?
snow is a pinkish white: #fffafa in hex, rgb(255 250 250). Black text on it reaches 20.31:1, passing WCAG AAA. Recolor (recolor.page) shows it on a real page below.
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| Format | Value |
|---|---|
| Keyword | snow |
| Hex | #fffafa |
| RGB | rgb(255 250 250) |
| HSL | hsl(0 100% 99%) |
| OKLCH | oklch(98.9% 0.005 17.2) |
| Nearest Tailwind color | taupe-50 #fbfaf9, 0.006 away in OKLab |
| White text | 1.03:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails |
| Black text | 20.31:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes |
About snow
In OKLCH terms snow has a lightness of 98.9%, a chroma of 0.005 and a hue of 17.2 degrees, a pinkish white to the eye.
HSL and OKLCH agree on how light it is, 99% and 98.9%. Its nearest CSS named color, white (#ffffff), is 0.012 away in OKLab, too close to tell apart by eye.
For text, snow wants black: 20.31:1 clears even AAA's 7:1, and white at 1.03:1 fails AA. In the hue-sorted table of named colors it sits between azure and floralwhite.
In Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 the nearest default color is taupe-50 (#fbfaf9), 0.006 away in OKLab; for the exact color, an arbitrary value such as bg-[#fffafa] works.
Tints and shades
- #fffefe
- #fffdfe
- #fffcfd
- #fffcfc
- #fffbfc
- #fffafa
- #c8c4c5
- #949192
- #636161
- #363535
- #0f0e0e
From light to dark: 5 toward white and 5 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.
A palette around it
- #fffafa
- #b351b6
- #3a1e38
- #e48de0
- #6b4873
Locked as the first of five swatches, snow gets #b351b6, #3a1e38, #e48de0, #6b4873 from Recolor's generator, a monochromatic palette, one hue in five lightnesses. The seed is its hex, so the palette stays the same. Open it in Recolor.
Using snow
As a text color, snow on a black page gives the same 20.31:1.
.notice {
background-color: snow; /* #fffafa */
color: black; /* 20.31:1 */
}Common questions
Does white text pass WCAG AA on snow?
No. White text measures 1.03:1 on snow, under AA's 4.5:1; black text measures 20.31:1 and passes.
Can snow be written in OKLCH?
Yes: oklch(98.9% 0.005 17.2), computed from #fffafa. A named color is an sRGB color, so its OKLCH value converts back to the same hex.
Is there a named color close to snow?
Yes: white (#ffffff) is the nearest, 0.012 away in OKLab, then ghostwhite at 0.013.