page_title: Shades of white
section_title: Eggshell
hierarchical_section_title: Shades of white / Eggshell
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Art traditionnel vietnamien dans un atelier de Hanoi&#160;: incrustation de fragments de coquilles d'oeufs dans la laque.
context_page_description: Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
  In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black. Strictly speaking, a “shade of white” would be a neutral beige.
  Colors often considered "shades of white" include cream, eggshell, ivory, Navajo white, and vanilla. Even the lighting of a room, however, can cause a pure white to be perceived as off-white.
  Off-white colors were pervasively paired with beiges in the 1930s, and especially popular again from roughly 1955 to 1975.
  Whiteness measures the degree to which a surface is white in colorimetry.
context_section_description: The color eggshell is displayed at left.
  The color eggshell is a representation of the average color of chicken eggs.
caption: Broken egg shells
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