White Smoke (#f5f5f5) is a very light, grayish gray. It is a CSS named color, so you can use it in stylesheets as color: whitesmoke as well as by its hex code. In RGB it is rgb(245, 245, 245); in HSL, hsl(0, 0%, 96%).
| Hex | #f5f5f5 |
|---|---|
| CSS name | whitesmoke |
| RGB | rgb(245, 245, 245) |
| HSL | hsl(0, 0%, 96%) |
| CMYK | 0%, 0%, 0%, 4% |
| CSS example | color: #f5f5f5; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); |
The hue is calculated at seven exact lightness levels for use in backgrounds, borders, text and hover states. These values are not substituted with nearby named colors.
#f5f5f5 is a neutral: it carries little to no hue, so wheel-based schemes like complementary or triadic would simply return the same gray. Neutrals work differently — use the ramp above for backgrounds, borders and text, and pair #f5f5f5 with a saturated accent for links, buttons and highlights. Each of these accents reads clearly against #f5f5f5:
On a #f5f5f5 background, black text gives the better contrast. WCAG requires 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text (AA), or 7:1 and 4.5:1 for AAA.
| Text color | Contrast ratio | Normal text | Large text |
|---|---|---|---|
| White text (#ffffff) | 1.09:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Black text (#000000) | 19.26:1 | AAA | AAA |
The CSS named colors closest to #f5f5f5:
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