Techno Taupe
#bfb9aa
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bfb9aa
RGB
191, 185, 170
OKLCh
78.6% 0.022 88.7°
CIELAB (D50)
75.3, 0.3, 8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 29 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 14% 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 37.7; on black, Lc -64.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7668 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bfb9aa
protanopia
#babaaa · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#bbbbaa · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#bcbc94 · ΔE00 9.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJogging Path at ΔE00 0.572: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Jogging PathΔE00 0.572 · #c0b9a9
- Sierra MadreΔE00 0.915 · #c2bcae
- PelicanΔE00 1.028 · #c1bcac
- Bright LoamΔE00 1.053 · #c1b9aa
- City DwellerΔE00 1.114 · #c0b9ac
- Historical RuinsΔE00 1.198 · #bfb9a7
- Phelps PuttyΔE00 1.229 · #c4bdad
- Pewter PatterΔE00 1.39 · #bab4a6
- Wilderness GreyΔE00 1.394 · #c2baa8
- Ghost TownΔE00 1.405 · #beb6a8
- Bay SandsΔE00 1.464 · #c5beae
- Play on GreyΔE00 1.473 · #bab6a9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.