HueComb

Taupe

#b9a281

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#b9a281

RGB

185, 162, 129

OKLCh

72.4% 0.053 76.7°

CIELAB (D50)

68.0, 5.0, 20.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.4 and 10.5 and 19.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#897354 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b9a281

protanopia

#a5a581 · ΔE00 10.4

deuteranopia

#a9a980 · ΔE00 10.5

tritanopia

#aeae00 · ΔE00 19.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCurds and Whey at ΔE00 0.762: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Curds and WheyΔE00 0.762 · #bca483
  • Sticks & StonesΔE00 0.79 · #baa482
  • With the GrainΔE00 0.892 · #bca380
  • MontecitoΔE00 0.921 · #b6a180
  • Old SalemΔE00 1.171 · #bba582
  • Rich RewardΔE00 1.174 · #b9a37f
  • Eggshell PongeeΔE00 1.255 · #bea582
  • Mojave DesertΔE00 1.276 · #bea684
  • Gobi TanΔE00 1.278 · #bba587
  • Chestnut ButterΔE00 1.416 · #bca486
  • Flaxen FieldΔE00 1.422 · #bba684
  • Craft BrownΔE00 1.455 · #b7a083

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.