White Smoke color: #f5f5f5
The CSS keyword whitesmoke is #f5f5f5, rgb(245, 245, 245) or hsl(0, 0%, 96%). Its codes to copy, 50–950 tint scale, harmonies and contrast on white and black.
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About White Smoke
White Smoke is an off-white with no hue at all, at 97% perceived lightness. Having no hue, it reads the same in every color space: only its lightness changes between notations.
The keyword whitesmoke comes from the X Window System color list, which SVG 1.0 adopted and CSS Color Level 3 brought to every stylesheet.
White Smoke tint scale, 50 to 950
Eleven neutral steps at fixed perceived lightness, in OKLCH: every pure grey shares this scale, and what sets each one apart is where it sits on it. The keyword itself falls closest to step 50 (#f5f5f5), the one outlined; step 500 is #868686.
Harmonies built on White Smoke
White Smoke has no hue, so there is nothing to rotate: a complementary or triadic scheme would give back the same grey. What remains is the monochromatic scheme — the same neutral at four lightness steps.
Monochromatic
White Smoke on white and on black
Black text reads better on whitesmoke (19.26:1). As a text color it belongs on a dark background: on white it only reaches 1.09:1, under the 4.5:1 that body text needs, while on black it reaches 19.26:1. AA asks 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text; AAA asks 7:1.
Named colors close to White Smoke
Open whitesmoke in the full tools
- Open in Color Converter — convert it to any other notation.
- Open in Palette Generator — export its scale as --whitesmoke-50 … --whitesmoke-950 tokens.
- Open in Color Harmonies — turn the wheel and compare OKLCH with HSL.
- Open in Contrast Checker — test it against any background, with the closest passing shade.
- Open in Color System Generator — derive a light and dark token set from it.
Or browse every named color from the color converter.