Mauve Taupe Color

Interestingly mauve became a color name in the late 1700s according to the oxford english dictionary.

Mauve taupe color.

Taupe provides the perfect backdrop to complement and offset brighter colors. As for its most common applications taupe is an incredibly versatile color that can be used in nearly every aspect of art and design such as home decor architecture branding and fashion design. Mauve taupe rgb color code. The decimal rgb color code is rgb 145 95 109.

Mauve ˈ m oʊ v mohv. This code is composed of a hexadecimal 91 red 145 256 a 5f green 95 256 and a 6d blue component 109 256. Recently warm taupe was featured on the fall 2016 color palette. Taupe ˈ t oʊ p tohp is a dark gray brown color.

Mauve the first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796 98 according to the oxford english dictionary but its use seems to have been rare before 1859 another name for the color is mallow with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in english in 1611. Mauve is a pale purple color that sits between violet and pink in the color wheel named after the mallow flower also called mauve in french. Today the name mauve has remained the more popular name. ˈ m ɔː v mawv is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower french.

The hexadecimal rgb code of mauve taupe color is 915f6d. The english mallow was also used for the same color but mauve has remained the more popular name. In 1856 an 18 year old chemist named william henry perkin tried to invent a cure for a malaria but inadvertently generated an interesting mauve colored residue.