Dark Taupe #7F684E

About this color

#7F684E is a medium-dark, muted brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 53%, its chroma 0.048 and its hue 70°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dark Taupe. White text reads best on it, at 5.25:1.

Colors that go with Dark Taupe

Matches found by rotating Dark Taupe around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Dark Taupe

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Dark Taupe, closest first.

• Cotton and Alabaster
• Clay Workshop
• Evergreen Floor
• Chalk Page
• Kyoto Steam
• Cortado Counter
• Umber Table
• Mandarin Crate

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Dark Taupe, with their ΔE distance.

• Grey Brown #7F7053 ΔE 0.022
• Dull Brown #876E4B ΔE 0.024
• Dirt Brown #836539 ΔE 0.025
• Cocoa #875F42 ΔE 0.026
• Dirt #8A6E45 ΔE 0.031
• Dim Gray #696969 ΔE 0.050
• Sepia #985E2B ΔE 0.054
• Earth #A2653E ΔE 0.061

More about Dark Taupe

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Dark Taupe

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts pink
• 3 parts brown
• 1 part black

Recipe result: #816955, a difference of ΔE 0.011 from Dark Taupe. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dark Taupe in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Dark Taupe

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F7F5F3

   oklch(97.1% 0.003 67.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDE9E5

   oklch(93.6% 0.007 67.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DED8D1

   oklch(88.5% 0.012 71.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CABEB2

   oklch(80.8% 0.021 67.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #AF9D8A

   oklch(70.6% 0.034 68.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9B856D

   oklch(63% 0.044 69.3)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #7F684E

   oklch(53.3% 0.048 69.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #715C45

   oklch(49% 0.044 69.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5C4C39

   oklch(42.8% 0.037 71.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4C3F31

    oklch(37.7% 0.029 68.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2C251D

    oklch(27% 0.018 70.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark Taupe with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.