Brown

#80262e

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for brown, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

This is Brown, a soft red sitting at 355 degrees on the wheel. Deep reds like this carry heritage and premium packaging well. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #80262e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#80262e

RGB128, 38, 46

HSL355, 54%, 33%

HSV355, 70%, 50%

CMYK0%, 70%, 64%, 50%

Lab29.84, 39.13, 17.04

XYZ10.09, 6.17, 3.24

Decimal8398382

Web safe#993333

Pantone188 C

Shades of brown

#76232a #6b2026 #611d23 #561a1f #4c171b #411317 #371014 #2c0d10 #220a0c #180708

Tints of brown

#992d37 #b23540 #c7414d #ce5a65 #d6737c #dd8d94 #e5a6ab #ecbfc3 #f3d8db #fbf1f2

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#268078 Analogous#80265b Analogous#804b26 Triadic#2e8026 Triadic#262e80 Split complementary#26804b Split complementary#265b80

Brown in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 70, 64, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #80262e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 70 64 50

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 68 63 56

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Brown in css

Copy #80262e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #80262e; }
.text { color: #80262e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #80262e; }

How brown looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #80262e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #80262e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #80262e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around brown? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #80262e and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from brown, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #80262e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.