What Color is Taupe Anyway?
How many kinds of "taupe" are there and what is that color anyway? There must be dozens of different taupes. I hereby call for standardization of the color "taupe". Just try to describe to someone over the phone what a taupe shoe looks like. Taupe to one person is quite different than taupe to the next person. I have several pairs of taupe shoes, none of which are the same color. When does "taupe" become "dark ivory" or some sort of ugly tan? And what's the difference between tan and taupe? I am sure I know. Tan is tan. Taupe isn't tan.
It seems there are a lot of others who have the same problem. I searched for some examples of taupe.
Here's taupe that's tan.
And then there's one that's kind of green.
And there is one that's taupe the way I think of it.
But it turns out that the real taupe is....
posted by Tootsie @ 1:56 PM
6 Comments:
taupe is one of the most CRAZY word AND colors. Not only could I not spell it but i had NO idea what it looked like. That is craaaazy!
I just painted my kitchen with some color called "taupe" and let me tell you, when the sun hits the wall my taupe looks pink! I have oak cabinets with a reddish tint, so my "pink" walls look terrible with the cabinets. I now have to find another color- one that doesn't say "TAUPE!
I too find "taupe" most frustrating! I looked it up, and some definitions state it's "grayish brown" and some say it's "brownish gray". Eh??
I think its grayish brown with a little touch of pale pink.
Schematic Red 188
Green 152
Blue 126
To make it pale use white
Taupe comes from the hebrew word
towb which translated fair in the
King James bible. It is most likely
a very light or pale tan if you use
it from the ancient perspective of
the original sense of the word.
Wikipedia has a very good article on Taupe. It's named for the European mole (which itself is variable in color); it can range from grayish brown to brownish gray to a "warm" gray to a gray pink, and be dark, medium, or light; it's vague-- in short, everything that everyone has already said. :)
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