Dust #B2996E

About this color

#B2996E is a medium-light, muted orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 69%, its chroma 0.066 and its hue 81°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dust. Black text reads best on it, at 7.67:1.

Colors that go with Dust

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

Color palettes with Dust

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

• Umber Workshop
• Persimmon Light
• Bracken Ridge
• Hemp Studio
• Peat Hands
• Raw Pottery
• Terrazzo Ground
• Terrazzo Table

Similar named colors

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

• Dark Beige #AC9362 ΔE 0.022
• Pale Brown #B1916E ΔE 0.022
• Taupe #B9A281 ΔE 0.032
• Mushroom #BA9E88 ΔE 0.037
• Stone #ADA587 ΔE 0.037
• Dark Sand #A88F59 ΔE 0.037
• Camel #C69F59 ΔE 0.045
• Bland #AFA88B ΔE 0.045

More about Dust

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Dust

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
• 2 parts orange
• 1 part blue

Recipe result: #B6966D, a difference of ΔE 0.009 from Dust. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dust 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 Dust

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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F7F5F1

   oklch(97.1% 0.006 84.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EEE9E1

   oklch(93.6% 0.012 79.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E1D8C9

   oklch(88.5% 0.023 80.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CEBEA3

   oklch(80.8% 0.041 80.8)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #B2996E

   oklch(69.5% 0.066 80.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #A4844C

   oklch(63.1% 0.084 80.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #8F6D2E

   oklch(55.6% 0.091 80.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #795B20

   oklch(49.1% 0.085 81.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #634B1D

   oklch(42.9% 0.07 81.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #513E1D

    oklch(37.7% 0.055 79.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2F2512

    oklch(27.1% 0.035 82.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dust 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.