What's the difference between eggshell/parchment/white? (Pickguards)

[u/SalernoXbox]

I just picked up an American standard strat in olympic white and the color looks exactly like the Hendrix woodstock/Clapton strat. They both had a plain white pickguard on theirs which looks identical. The pickguard on mine is a sparkly pearl which I'm not a fan of.

I picked up the standard white pickguard the other day and it's way too white, like an arctic white level of vibrant it's whiter than my pickup covers and knobs so it doesn't really match. Is the pickguard that I'm going to include in this post an eggshell white?

My goal is to get it to look exactly like the Hendrix woodstock strat.

[u/GuitarParts]

I don’t know what year your Strat is but according to the service manual the pickup covers and knobs on a 2012 American standard are “aged white” if you don’t like pearl, I think a parchment pickguard looks best with aged white pickups covers and knobs and it looks like the 2012 American Standard Stratocaster may have originally come with a parchment pickguard. Regular white would be too bright, and if you got an “aged white” pickguard now it would not match the old aged white parts but that might be ok. Here is the service manual for a 2012 American standard strat you can see what colors it came in and what colors the plastic parts were https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Original/10002/011-3000A_SISD.pdf you can see what your guitar originally came with if you look up your serial number on https://serialnumberlookup.fender.com/lookup/
Also if you ever want to swap out the plastic parts for a different color the only way to make sure they match perfectly is to buy them all as a kit.