Brown

#857e6e

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

This is Brown, a grey orange at 42 degrees. A mid orange this warm suits food, sport and friendly brands. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #857e6e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#857e6e

RGB133, 126, 110

HSL42, 9%, 48%

HSV42, 17%, 52%

CMYK0%, 5%, 17%, 48%

Lab52.99, -0.22, 9.67

XYZ19.95, 21.03, 17.76

Decimal8748654

Web safe#996666

Pantone424 C

Shades of brown

#797364 #6e685b #625d51 #565248 #4b473e #3f3c34 #34312b #282621 #1c1b17 #11100e

Tints of brown

#918a7b #9d9688 #a8a296 #b3aea3 #bfbab1 #cac6bf #d5d2cc #e0deda #eceae8 #f7f6f5

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#6e7585 Analogous#85726e Analogous#81856e Triadic#6e857e Triadic#7e6e85 Split complementary#6e8185 Split complementary#726e85

Brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 5, 17, 48.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #857e6e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 17 48

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 20 54

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 #857e6e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #857e6e; }
.text { color: #857e6e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #857e6e; }

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 #857e6e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #857e6e 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 #857e6e 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 #857e6e 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 #857e6e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.