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'''Taupe''' refers to a dark [[gray|grayish]]-[[brown]] color.  The word "taupe" derives from the [[Latin language|Latin]] name for the European Mole, ''[[Talpa europaea]]''. 

Originally, this referred only to the average [[color]] of the French mole,<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Discussion of the color Taupe, Page 183</ref> but like the colors [[pink]] and [[lavender (color)|lavender]], the name expanded (in the case of ''taupe'' beginning in the 1940s) to encompass a wide range of varying shades.  It seems that this occurred because the color of the fur of the mole can itself be a wide range of shades, from [[gray]] through [[yellow]]ish, [[brown]]ish, and even [[purple|purplish]].

The first use of ''taupe'' as a color name in English was in the early 1800s (exact year is not known). <ref> Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Discussion of Color Taupe, Page 183; Color Sample of Taupe: Page 55 Plate 16 Color Sample A6</ref>

==Meaning of taupe==
* The various shades of the color ''taupe'' are widely used in [[fashion]], [[interior design]], [[industrial design]], and in [[graphic design]] where [[Pantone]] ink and [[RGB]] [[hexadecimal]] specifiers both describe the color as a warm gray.

* Taupe is the most popular  color for [[leather]] [[sofa]]s.

==Tones of taupe color comparison chart==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
!Name
!width=100|Color
!HEX Code
!Source
!Red
!Green
!Blue
!Hue
!Sat
!Lum
|-
|Taupe Beige
|style="background-color:#ebc2af"|
|#EBC2AF
|
|235
|194
|175
|019°
|60%
|80%
|-
|Taos Taupe
|style="background-color:#bfaa80"|
|#BFAA80
|(Pantone TPX 15-1119)
|191
|170
|128
|040°
|33%
|63%
|-
|Pale Taupe
|style="background-color:#bc987e"|
|#BC987E
|(www.99colors.net) (Mouse)
|188
|152
|126
|025°
|32%
|62%
|-
|Light Taupe
|style="background-color:#b38b6d"|
|#B38B6D
|(Taupe (Crayola colored pencils))
|179
|139
|109
|026°
|32%
|56%
|-
|Warm Taupe
|style="background-color:#b29784"|
|#B29784
|(Pantone TPX 16-1318)
|178
|151
|132
|025°
|23%
|61%
|-
|Pastel Taupe
|style="background-color:#af9e89"|
|#AF9E89
|(Light Taupe (Pantone TPX 16-1210))
|175
|158
|137
|033°
|19%
|61%
|-
|Simply Taupe
|style="background-color:#aba092"|
|#ABA092
|(Pantone TPX 16-0906)
|71
|100
|146
|034°
|13%
|62%
|-
|Plaza Taupe
|style="background-color:#a79e8b"|
|#A79E8B
|(Pantone TPX 16-1105)
|167
|158
|139
|041°
|14%
|60%
|-
|Perfect Taupe
|style="background-color:#a99f95"|
|#A99F95
|(Resene color list)
|169
|159
|149
|030°
|10%
|62%
|-
|Desert Taupe
|style="background-color:#a18178"|
|#A18178
|(Pantone TPX 17-1311)
|161
|129
|120
|013°
|18%
|55%
|-
|Sandy Taupe
|style="background-color:#967117"|
|#967117
|(ISCC-NBS)
|150
|113
|23
|043°
|73%
|34%
|-
|Taupe Gray 
|style="background-color:#8b8589"|
|#8B8589
|(ISCC-NBS)
|139
|133
|137
|320°
|3%
|53%
|-
|Medium Taupe Gray
|style="background-color:#88786a"|
|#88786A
|(Taupe Gray (Pantone TPX 17-8080))
|136
|120
|106
|028°
|12%
|47%
|-
|Rose Taupe
|style="background-color:#905d5d"|
|#905D5D
|(ISCC-NBS)
|144
|93
|93
|000°
|22%
|46%
|-
|Mauve Taupe
|style="background-color:#915f6d"|
|#915F6D
|(ISCC-NBS)
|145
|95
|109
|343°
|21%
|47%
|-
|Deep Rose Taupe
|style="background-color:#7E5E60"|
|#7E5E60
|(Rose Taupe (Pantone TPX 18-1612))
|126
|94
|96
|356°
|15%
|43%
|-
|Deep Taupe
|style="background-color:#715c56"|
|#715F6D
|(Pantone TPX 18-1312)
|113
|92
|86
|313°
|009%
|41%
|-
|Taupe Brown
|style="background-color:#674c47"|
|#674C47
|ISCC-NBS (Medium Taupe)
|103
|76
|71
|009°
|18%
|34%
|-
|Purple Taupe
|style="background-color:#504040"|
|#504040
|(www.99colors.net)
|80
|64
|77
|000°
|11%
|28%
|-
|'''Taupe'''
|style="background-color:#483c32"|
|'''#483C32'''
|'''(ISCC-NBS) (Taupe (Maerz and Paul))(Dark Taupe)'''
|'''72'''
|'''60'''
|'''50'''
|'''027°'''
|'''18%'''
|'''24%'''
|-
|French Taupe
|style="background-color:#463f32"|
|#463F32
|(Taupe (pourpre.com))
|70
|63
|50
|039°
|17%
|24%
|}

==Related pages==
*[[List of colors]]

==References==
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