Snow

#fffafa

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

Snow is a pale red that reads gentle. Pale reds like this show up in wedding stationery and soft brand marks. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Snow color values

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

Hex#fffafa

RGB255, 250, 250

HSL0, 100%, 99%

HSV0, 2%, 100%

CMYK0%, 2%, 2%, 0%

Lab98.64, 1.66, 0.58

XYZ92.68, 96.53, 104.19

Decimal16775930

Web safe#ffffff

Pantone649 C

Shades of snow

#ffcbcb #ff9b9b #ff6c6c #ff3c3c #ff0d0d #dc0000 #ad0000 #7d0000 #4e0000 #1f0000

Snow in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 0, 2, 2, 0.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 2 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 6 6

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Snow in css

Copy #fffafa straight into your stylesheet.

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

How snow looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Snow and accessibility

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

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

Snow on a business card, sticker and pattern

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

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around snow? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn snow into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #fffafa 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 snow, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #fffafa come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.