Sand color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around sand. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Sand is #C2B280, light muted yellow. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and sand color palettes to copy.

Sand hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#C2B280

HEX: #C2B280
RGB: rgb(194, 178, 128)
HSL: hsl(45, 35%, 63%)
OKLCH: oklch(76.5% 0.069 92.4)
On white: 2.11:1
On black: 9.97:1

Shades of sand

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Sand color values

#C2B280rgb(194, 178, 128)

Color spaces of #c2b280
RGB	194	178	128
HSL	45°	35%	63%
HSV	45°	34%	76%
CMYK	0.00	0.08	0.34	0.24
XYZ	42.0654	44.8699	26.8628
Yxy	44.8699	0.3696	0.3943
CIE-Lab	72.8061	-1.7494	27.6767
Hunter Lab	66.9850	-5.1288	23.1126
OKLCH	76.5%	0.069	92.4°

#C2B280 is 194 red, 178 green and 128 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #CC9999.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11000010	10110010	10000000
Octal	302	262	200
Decimal	194	178	128
Hex	C2	B2	80

#c2b280 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#C2B280
#AEA073
#9B8E66
#877C59
#746A4C
#615940
#4D4733
#3A3526
#262319
#13110C
#000000

#c2b280 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#C2B280
#C8B98C
#CEC199
#D4C9A6
#DAD0B2
#E0D8BF
#E6E0CC
#ECE7D8
#F2EFE5
#F8F7F2
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red38.8%
Green35.6%
Blue25.6%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#C2B280
#A3B1DF

Triadic

#C2B280
#7EBFCD
#CEA3C6

Analogous

#C2B280
#ABBA89
#D3A985

Monochromatic

#564817
#786939
#9C8D5C
#C2B280
#E9D9A5
#FFF8E4
#FFF8E4

#c2b280 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 9.97:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.11:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #c2b280

color: #c2b280;
background-color: #c2b280;
border: 3px solid #c2b280;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #c2b280;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(194, 178, 128, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(76.5% 0.069 92.4);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Sand on white measures 2.11:1 and on black 9.97:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.27:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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