I've been designing a deck of cards over the last few weeks. I got the the dimensions from a printing company and used a combination of GIMP and Adobe Illustrator to put my deck together. I plan to send it to print when I am done.

This is my first time designing a deck of cards, and using those programs. I am not an art student either, so please bare with me.

My question is an odd one but I want to get this right.

I've designed my own suits and used custom assets but I want to have a normal white background. It has occurred to me that pure white (ffffff) might be too bright. I just want the normal white background used by standard bicycle playing cards.

When I look at a standard deck of bicycle cards I don't know whether they are using pure white and that's how it looks when it's printed or they use a duller white to make it easier on the eyes. What do they use? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I haven't had anything printed before and I want it to be correct.

Thank you