Strictly speaking, a "shade of white" would be a neutral gray.

This article is also about off-white colors that vary from pure white in hue, and in chroma (also called saturation, or intensity).

Even the lighting of a room, however, can cause a pure white to be perceived as off-white.

[1] Off-white colors were pervasively paired with beiges in the 1930s,[2] and especially popular again from roughly 1955 to 1975.

Below is a chart showing the computer web color shades of white.

White#FFFFFF White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings.

A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.

Sometimes also known as Ghost White, the color has marked blue hues, although is otherwise very close to being completely white in the RGB color system.

[9] Baby powder#FEFEFA The Crayola crayon color baby powder was introduced in 1994 as part of its specialty Magic Scent crayon collection.

The first recorded use of ivory as a color name in English was in 1385.

Old lace is used as a color of a certain kind of Caucasian skin type in art.

The first recorded use of cream as a color name in English was in 1590.

The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887.

[16] The term originates from beige cloth, a cotton fabric left undyed in its natural color.

Items that are of beige color in real world applications are typically closer to brown than they are to white.

The first recorded use of bone as a color name in English was in the first decade of the 19th century (exact year uncertain).