Taupe (#483C32) is a dark, muted brown hue. Taupe is a dark brownish grey named after the French word for mole.
In RGB it is made of 72 red, 60 green and 50 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 27° with 18% saturation and 24% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 37% with a chroma of 0.024. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 17% magenta, 31% yellow and 72% black.
As a text color on white, Taupe has a contrast ratio of 10.67:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text. On black it reaches 1.97:1 and fails AA. If you use Taupe as a background, put white text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 9 for black text and Lc -99 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #34404A, close to charcoal. Colors that look most similar are charcoal, gunmetal, eggplant. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 1), so its meaning mostly survives.