Puce color
Puce is a grayed purple-brown. French for flea; it was the fashion at the court of Marie Antoinette. Its hex code is #A57A82.
- Hex
- #A57A82
- RGB
- 165, 122, 130
- OKLCH
- 62.4% 0.055 6.4
- Value
- 6 of 10
- Family
- Red-violet
Is puce warm or cool?
Both, a little: red-violet sits right at the line between the warm half of the color wheel and the cool half, so it can read as either, depending on what is beside it. On its own, puce leans warm. It is a mid-tone color, value 6 of 10, and its opposite is moss. More in warm and cool colors.
Puce tints, tones and shades
A tint adds white, a tone adds gray of the same lightness, and a shade adds black. Each row starts with puce itself.
The opposite of puce
Opposite puce on the color wheel sits moss, #6A7C5E. Side by side, each makes the other look stronger; mixed, they turn each other gray.
Colors that go with puce
Puce in paintings
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