Information about #FCFCFC color
Basic facts about this digital color
#FCFCFC presents itself as a softly muted whisper-light neutral — one that radiates an almost-white brightness. In practice it works well for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Pale Grey (#FDFDFE). Slightly further away sit Lotion (#FEFDFA) and Baby Powder (#FEFEFA).
Technically, #FCFCFC is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 252, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, black text reaches a 20.5:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.0:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#FCFCFC color variations
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#FCFCFC color tints
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#FCFCFC color shades
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#FCFCFC color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#FCFCFC belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, and greyscale colors have no hue. Hue is an angle on the color wheel, and that angle only exists when a color leans toward one primary more than the others. Here all three channels are equal (R = G = B), so there is nothing to lean and no angle to measure.
Everything built on rotating that angle therefore has nothing to rotate. A complementary color is the hue 180° away — for a grey, that is the same grey. The same goes for analogous, triadic, tetradic and square harmonies. Rather than show seven identical swatches, the register leaves the Hues variation strip and the whole Harmonies section out.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints, shades and tones still work, because they move the color up and down the scale instead of around the wheel. So do the nearest named colors, the conversions and the adjacent color codes.
How the register classifies colors · All greyscale colors in the register
Alternatives to #FCFCFC color
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Nearest named colors to #FCFCFC
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#FDFDFE
#FEFDFA
#FEFEFA
#FAFAFA
#FEFCFF
#FFFEFD
#FEFDFF
#FFFAFA
#FAF9FE
#FCFFF9
#FBFFFF
#FDF8FF
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#FCFCFC
- RGB252, 252, 252
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 1
- CSSrgb(252, 252, 252)
- HSL0°, 0%, 99%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 98.824%
- HSV0°, 0%, 99%
- HSB0°, 0%, 99%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.988
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.988
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.988
- GLSLvec3(0.988, 0.988, 0.988)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.988, 0.988, 0.988, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.988, 0.988, 0.988)
- Percentage of Red in RGB98.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB98.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB98.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLuminous
- HEX IDFCFCFC
- DECIMAL ID16579836
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers39 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
