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Marbled Topazio

#c4ae94
Notes

Marbled Topazio (#C4AE94) is a true orange 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 (32°, 29%, 67%) 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
#c4ae94
RGB
rgb(196, 174, 148)
HSL
hsl(32, 29%, 67%)
HWB
hwb(32 58% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.3% 0.044 71.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7542 0.6854 0.5924)
HSV
hsv(32, 24%, 77%)
LAB
lab(72.33% 3.85 16.26)
LCH
lch(72.33% 16.71 76.68)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 11%, 24%, 23%)

Etymology

Marbled
adjective

Latin marmor, marble — past-participle of marble, sharing root with Greek mármaros. As a color modifier, marbled implies a pale-and-veined-and-irregularly-flowed quality, the pale color of Carrara-Italian-marble-and-Florentine-paper irregularly-veined-and-flowed natural-stone-and-decorative-paper surface-finish. Sits at the pale-and-soft end of the grid, parallel to veined and mottled 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.

#c4ae94
Original
#b6ae92
Protanopia
#bbb395
Deuteranopia
#cda9a7
Tritanopia
#b1b1b1
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
2.14:1
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
9.83:1

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
##C4AE94
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7542 0.6854 0.5924)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.044

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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