What is the color of a manga paper? 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.
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.