Then you’ve missed out on a detailed reply, clearly explained. (Not to mention you’ve probably made it less likely that @cpradio will feel motivated to assist you in future.)
And please stop quoting entire posts in your replies. It makes for an awful lot of unnecessary scrolling.
I thought it was a strange name for pink. I had not heard of this pre-set colour before, I mainly use hex values, when you gave your first answer “#fffafaa;” I thought: No way, that’s light pink, why is that called snow? Then had to try it to see how it actually looks, and those numbers can’t lie.
I would have thought the name suggests a blue tint rather than red, like #fafaff or similar.
It is close enough to “white” that seen in isolation, you would say it was white. But put it next to white and you see it, though very subtle.
Tis a shame that you can’t appreciate sarcasm as I went into a lot of detail explaining how they are different, first sentence in the second paragraph. Oh well. Your loss, I guess…
We seem to be missing Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopey. 
Are you sure about that one?
Thus the reason for my question in the OP.
I didn’t know if snow white was supposed to have a grey-tint to it, or maybe blue, or something else.
But I can’t really see any difference between it and white-white.
It wasn’t sarcasm - it was treating me like a fool for asking a legitimate question.
Why do that?
The quality or otherwise of the monitor used will make a difference as to whether or not the difference can be detected by the human eye. My work monitor make the difference much less distinct than my Lenovo laptop at home for instance, whilst it’s even more distinct on my iPad.
The point I was trying to make though, is that your eyes are capable of discerning a much greater gamut of colours and contrast in the real world, than (any) monitor is capable of displaying - the same goes on the detection side where camera sensors are concerned.
TL;DR: If you can’t capture it, and you can’t display it, you’re not going to see it; but it’s there…
There are over 16 million different RGB combinations. No one can tell the difference between them all.
Well, it’s a red tint strangely enough.
I can see #fffafa (Snow) easily enough, but if I change Ralph’s pen to #fffefe (the lightest possible red tint), no I can’t see it against white.
But, you would notice them if they were not there. Things like gradients would appear banded, like on the old low-bit video systems.
You’d get much the same effect on photographic quality images - images would start to look overly compressed and become blocky.
So it was sarcasm at the time you quoted it and then yawned (your words… not mine), but now it isn’t? Color me confused (is that sarcasm? – I’m no longer sure). 
As to “Why do that?”, to make a point. You asked a question that you sort of knew the answer to and with just a small amount of digging said answer was easily discoverable (of which I won’t repeat – as I already covered it very well in the prior response).
And yes, your monitor is the likely culprit as to why you can’t tell a difference. Try looking at the monitor at angles to see if that helps or lowering the contrast/brightness of the monitor, that too may help show it on your display.
If I tilt my MacBook monitor, I can see the slight difference now.
Agreed.
You are mean-spirited at times. That is a better way of describing it. It’s a shame that some people feel that is the only way to get their point across.
If my questions are silly, why bother reading my threads?
I could not see the difference between “white” and “snow” and I asked how they differed VISUALLY because I couldn’t notice a difference on my laptop. (I did not ask about hex codes or pee colored snow…) 
And you are rude at times. There was nothing mean-spirited about cpradio’s reply, which answered your question in detail.
Can we please continue this thread without further name-calling?
I thought the hex codes were a very useful way of showing what the colour is and how it differs from plain white. Especially if you were unable to see it in a visual example.
Me too.
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