HueComb

Tender Taupe

#c4b198

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

#c4b198

RGB

196, 177, 152

OKLCh

77.0% 0.041 74.7°

CIELAB (D50)

73.4, 4.1, 15.5

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 25% 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 40.7; on black, Lc -61.6. 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 9.4 and 9.8 and 22.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.08:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#86745d 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

#c4b198

protanopia

#b3b398 · ΔE00 9.4

deuteranopia

#b7b797 · ΔE00 9.8

tritanopia

#bbbb00 · ΔE00 22.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCamel Coat at ΔE00 0.664: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Camel CoatΔE00 0.664 · #c5b39a
  • SandrockΔE00 0.76 · #c4b19a
  • Best BeigeΔE00 0.903 · #c6b49c
  • Riviera BeachΔE00 0.977 · #c0ae96
  • Barcelona BeigeΔE00 1.036 · #c4b39c
  • Brown BunnyΔE00 1.063 · #c2ae93
  • Vast DesertΔE00 1.109 · #c2b197
  • SourdoughΔE00 1.295 · #c9b59a
  • Antler VelvetΔE00 1.309 · #c0ad96
  • Nomadic DesertΔE00 1.315 · #c7b198
  • Papyrus MapΔE00 1.422 · #c0ac92
  • Windsor GreigeΔE00 1.435 · #c4b49c

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