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Custom Yogurt

#b3a19c
Notes

Custom Yogurt (#B3A19C) is a true red with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (13°, 13%, 66%) places it in the muted band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b3a19c
RGB
rgb(179, 161, 156)
HSL
hsl(13, 13%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(13 61% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.3% 0.022 36.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6901 0.6339 0.6149)
HSV
hsv(13, 13%, 70%)
LAB
lab(67.63% 5.70 4.99)
LCH
lch(67.63% 7.58 41.18)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 10%, 13%, 30%)

Etymology

Custom
adjective

Latin cōnsuētūdō, habit / usage — adjectival usage of custom. As a color modifier, custom implies a neutral-and-individually-fitted-and-bespoke quality, the neutral color of Savile-Row-tailoring and Gucci-and-Hermès-Made-to-Measure individually-fitted-and-bespoke craft-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to bespoke and tailored in usage.

Yogurt
noun

Turkish yoğurt, thickened-milk — the iconic pale-cream-and-pale-gray-white cultured-dairy of Anatolian-Balkan-and-Levantine cuisine, the base of tzatziki-and-cacık. Yogurt color refers to a freshly hand-strained süzme yoğurt (Turkish strained yogurt) on a Turkish hand-thrown-clay serving-bowl: a pale cool gray with the matte finish of cultured-dairy protein-coagulated yogurt with the characteristic strained-yogurt texture.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#b3a19c
Original
#a5a39c
Protanopia
#a9a69c
Deuteranopia
#b89fa0
Tritanopia
#a4a4a4
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
2.47:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.49:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##B3A19C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6901 0.6339 0.6149)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.022

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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