The color name "White" has been approved in accordance with the internal procedures of The Official Register of Color Names.Record Validation Evidence: Wikipedia/White
The history behind the Color Name White
The word white continues Old English hwīt, ultimately from a Common Germanic *χwītaz also reflected in OHG (h)wîz, ON hvítr, Goth. ƕeits. The root is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European language *kwid-, surviving also in Sanskrit śveta “to be white or bright” and Slavonic světŭ “light”. The Icelandic word for white, hvítur, is directly derived from the Old Norse form of the word hvítr. Common Germanic also had the word *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), borrowed into Late Latin as *blancus, which provided the source for Romance words for “white” (Catalan, Occitan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Italian bianco, Galician-Portuguese branco, etc.). The antonym of white is black.
Some non-European languages have a wide variety of terms for white. The Inuit language has seven different words for seven different nuances of white. Sanskrit has specific words for bright white, the white of teeth, the white of sandalwood, the white of the autumn moon, the white of silver, the white of cow’s milk, the white of pearls, the white of a ray of sunlight, and the white of stars. Japanese has six different words, depending upon brilliance or dullness, or if the color is inert or dynamic.
Basic facts about this digital color
The digital color HEX #FFFFFF, known as
"White",
belongs to the
Red Color Family featuring
Desaturated (Saturation Family) and
Luminous (Brightness Family).
HEX code #FFFFFF represent the color in hexadecimal format by combining three values – the amounts of Red, Green and Blue (RGB).
Its RGB composition is 255, 255, 255 ( rgb(255, 255, 255) ), which breaks down into 100% of Red, 100% Green and 100% Blue.
For printing in non digital world, #FFFFFF is represented in CMYK as
0 Cyan,
0 Magenta,
0 Yellow, and
0 Black (Key)
(C:0
M:0
Y:0
K:0).
