How to make Page background Light in color

Question

Hi i am looking for Light colors for the page background. here is my code:

\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{Dandelion}
\color{Violet}
\Large
$$x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$
\end{document}

My output is shown below:

How to reduce brightness of the above color?

Answer 1

You could mix it with white (or any other color really), for instance, using Dandelion!20!white ("20" here means 20% Dandelion, with the rest being white):

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{Dandelion!20!white}
\color{Violet}
\Large
$$x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$
\end{document}

Have a look at the xcolor documentation as well.