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Misted Topazio

#c0b39e
Notes

Misted Topazio (#C0B39E) is a true amber 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 (37°, 21%, 69%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#c0b39e
RGB
rgb(192, 179, 158)
HSL
hsl(37, 21%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(37 62% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(77.2% 0.033 79.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7442 0.7037 0.6286)
HSV
hsv(37, 18%, 75%)
LAB
lab(73.49% 1.14 12.40)
LCH
lch(73.49% 12.45 84.75)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 7%, 18%, 25%)

Etymology

Misted
adjective

Old English mist — past-participle of mist. As a color modifier, misted implies a pale-and-vapor-veiled quality, the pale color of Cornish-coast-and-Highland early-morning fog-and-mist atmospheric-veiled surface. Sits at the pale-and-veiled end of the grid, parallel to mistlike and foggy in usage.

Topazio
noun

The Italian word for topaz — used in Renaissance jewelry vocabulary and Italian fashion writing for the warm gold-yellow of imperial topaz. The color refers to a faceted Italian-cut topazio: a saturated, slightly cool deep gold-yellow with the gem's signature internal warmth. The Italian cousin of topaz.

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.

Variations

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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.

#c0b39e
Original
#b9b39d
Protanopia
#bcb69f
Deuteranopia
#c6afad
Tritanopia
#b4b4b4
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
2.06:1
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
10.18:1

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
##C0B39E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7442 0.7037 0.6286)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.033

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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