White smoke

#ecedee

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for white smoke, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

White smoke is a near neutral, pale with barely any hue. Pale neutrals like this make dependable backgrounds and paper stocks. Almost anything sits on top of it, which is what makes a good neutral useful.

White smoke color values

Every conversion for #ecedee, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecedee

RGB236, 237, 238

HSL210, 6%, 93%

HSV210, 1%, 93%

CMYK1%, 0%, 0%, 7%

Lab93.7, -0.15, -0.61

XYZ80.31, 84.57, 92.98

Decimal15527406

Web safe#ffffff

Pantone656 C

Shades of white smoke

#d5d7d9 #bdc1c4 #a6aaaf #8e949a #777e85 #62686e #4d5256 #383c3f #232528 #0e0f10

Tints of white smoke

#edeeef #eeeff0 #eff0f1 #f0f1f1 #f1f2f2 #f2f2f3 #f3f3f4 #f4f4f5 #f5f5f6 #f6f6f7

Colors that go with white smoke

Complementary#eeedec Analogous#eceeee Analogous#ececee Triadic#eeeced Triadic#edeeec Split complementary#eeecec Split complementary#eeeeec

White smoke in print

It is pale enough that on uncoated stock it can read even lighter than on screen. The cmyk build is 1, 0, 0, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecedee on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

1 0 0 7

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

5 4 4 13

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

White smoke in css

Copy #ecedee straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecedee; }
.text { color: #ecedee; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecedee; }

How white smoke looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

White smoke and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ecedee against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecedee against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

White smoke on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ecedee sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around white smoke? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn white smoke into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ecedee and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from white smoke, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ecedee come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.