32 Colors Close To White

John Spacey, March 14, 2023

Colors that are close to white are always heavily tinted with white color. No pure spectral color, that results from one wavelength of light, is similar to white. It is often said that yellow is similar to white but this is just because people perceive the sun as yellow when it is white light that is tinged yellow by the atmosphere. The following are common near white colors.

Light Chalcedony
#ecf2ff

Light Silver
#eef3f6

Alice Blue
#f0f8ff

Blue Ice
#f2fffb

Beige #2
#f5f0e3

Smoked Periwinkle
#f5f0ff

Beige
#f5f5dc

White Smoke
#f5f5f5

Linen
#f6f7f3

Light Mint
#f6fff5

Light Grey
#f7f2f6

Light Purple
#f7f3fa

Light Green
#f7fff5

Ghost White #2
#f8f8ff

Light Cucumber
#f9fff7

Light Pink
#faf5fd

Blue Vanilla
#fafcff

Light Cream
#fafef2

Whiteout
#fbfbfb

Ghost White
#fcfffe

Blue Paper
#fcffff

Off White
#fdfdfb

Snow
#feffff

Lavender Blush
#fff0f5

Seashell Orange
#fff1ed

Vanilla #2
#fff4e8

Seashell Beige
#fff5db

Seashell
#fff5ee

Light Strawberry
#fff7f9

Floral White
#fffaf0

Cloud White
#fffcfa

Vanilla
#fffff5

Yellow vs White

It is a myth that yellow is close to white. Yellow is a spectral color in the range of about 565 - 590 nanometers. White is a human perception of unbelievably colorful light from all visible wavelengths. As you can see below a pure yellow color isn't very similar to white

Yellow at 583 nanometers
#fff600

White
#ffffff

Notes

Near white colors are important because they are useful as backgrounds that maximize reflection without being as plain or stark as white.

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