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32 Colors Close To White

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Colors that are close to white are always heavily tinted with white color. No pure spectral color, that results from one wavelength of light, is similar to white. It is often said that yellow is similar to white but this is just because people perceive the sun as yellow when it is white light that is tinged yellow by the atmosphere. The following are common near white colors.
Light Chalcedony
#ecf2ff
Light Silver
#eef3f6
Alice Blue
#f0f8ff
Blue Ice
#f2fffb
Beige #2
#f5f0e3
Smoked Periwinkle
#f5f0ff
Beige
#f5f5dc
White Smoke
#f5f5f5
Linen
#f6f7f3
Light Mint
#f6fff5
Light Grey
#f7f2f6
Light Purple
#f7f3fa
Light Green
#f7fff5
Ghost White #2
#f8f8ff
Light Cucumber
#f9fff7
Light Pink
#faf5fd
Blue Vanilla
#fafcff
Light Cream
#fafef2
Whiteout
#fbfbfb
Ghost White
#fcfffe
Blue Paper
#fcffff
Off White
#fdfdfb
Snow
#feffff
Lavender Blush
#fff0f5
Seashell Orange
#fff1ed
Vanilla #2
#fff4e8
Seashell Beige
#fff5db
Seashell
#fff5ee
Light Strawberry
#fff7f9
Floral White
#fffaf0
Cloud White
#fffcfa
Vanilla
#fffff5

Yellow vs White

It is a myth that yellow is close to white. Yellow is a spectral color in the range of about 565 - 590 nanometers. White is a human perception of unbelievably colorful light from all visible wavelengths. As you can see below a pure yellow color isn't very similar to white
Yellow at 583 nanometers
#fff600
White
#ffffff

Notes

Near white colors are important because they are useful as backgrounds that maximize reflection without being as plain or stark as white.
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