

The background color of a manga paper when scanned online is changed by the
scanlators to white (#FFFFFF).

However, this is not the background color in an actual manga book. the color
in the manga book looks little grayer in the paper.

What I am trying to do, is to publish a manga online with the same real
background color.

  * What is the best estimation of that white-gray color?
  * What are the manga papers made of? They are not the same as a normal white printer paper. 


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What is the color of a manga paper?


The color varies _widely_ based on multiple factors:

  * Lighting
  * Paper type (I'll get there in a minute)
  * Scanner type and quality

Therefore, I can't 100% give you a color estimate (it could be anything from
very light yellowish-gray to very dark gray).

* * *

As for paper types. There are also several types of paper that could be used
for printing manga:

  * Newspaper-like paper, which is thin and has a slight gray shade.
  * Recycled paper, which is yellowish in composure and often has little "grains" in it.

There are probably a whole lot more, but that's the prominent two I know of.


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Solution: I also had this question, but I ended up having to make color
combinations, print them out, and compare them to physical copies of manga I
had. The closest color combination I was able to make was: (R, G, B) = (238,
230, 201).


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