Brown

#86716d

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

Brown lands in the red band, mid and grey. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. 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 #86716d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#86716d

RGB134, 113, 109

HSL10, 10%, 48%

HSV10, 19%, 53%

CMYK0%, 16%, 19%, 47%

Lab49.48, 7.53, 5.27

XYZ18.5, 17.98, 16.96

Decimal8810861

Web safe#996666

Pantone437 C

Shades of brown

#7a6763 #6f5d5a #635350 #574947 #4b403d #403634 #342c2a #282221 #1d1817 #110e0e

Tints of brown

#927d7a #9e8b87 #a99895 #b4a5a3 #bfb3b0 #cac0be #d5cdcc #e1dbda #ece8e7 #f7f5f5

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#6d8286 Analogous#866d75 Analogous#867e6d Triadic#6d8671 Triadic#716d86 Split complementary#6d867e Split complementary#6d7586

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, 16, 19, 47.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #86716d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 16 19 47

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 19 21 53

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 #86716d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #86716d; }
.text { color: #86716d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #86716d; }

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 #86716d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #86716d 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 #86716d 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 #86716d 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

Every value on this page for #86716d is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.