Taupe

The color code of Taupe indicates, that red is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with green it forms the basic color yellow, which determines the initial color impression along with the remains of red. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Taupe is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 20 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 59 %, Taupe is a rather light color.

Hex	`#a59572`
RGB	`rgb(165, 149, 114)`
HSL*	`hsl(41, 22%, 55%)`
Lab*	`62.26 0.44 20.67`
CMYK*	`0% 10% 31% 35%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

45 %

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