Buff (colour)

Buff (Latin: bubalinus) is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.

Buff
 
    Colour coordinates
Hex triplet#DAA06D
sRGBB (r, g, b)(218, 160, 109)
HSV (h, s, v)(28°, 50%, 85%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(70, 60, 43°)
SourceMaerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Buff as an RYB quaternary colour
  citron
  buff
  russet

As an RYB quaternary colour, it is the colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colours citron and russet.

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