Brown

#8a7170

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

This is Brown, a grey red sitting at 2 degrees on the wheel. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #8a7170, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a7170

RGB138, 113, 112

HSL2, 10%, 49%

HSV2, 19%, 54%

CMYK0%, 18%, 19%, 46%

Lab49.96, 9.64, 4.24

XYZ19.31, 18.38, 17.86

Decimal9073008

Web safe#996666

Pantone437 C

Shades of brown

#7e6766 #725d5c #665353 #5a4949 #4d3f3f #413535 #352c2b #292221 #1d1818 #110e0e

Tints of brown

#957e7d #a08b8a #ab9898 #b6a6a5 #c1b3b2 #ccc0c0 #d6cdcd #e1dbda #ece8e8 #f7f5f5

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#70898a Analogous#8a707c Analogous#8a7e70 Triadic#708a71 Triadic#71708a Split complementary#708a7e Split complementary#707c8a

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, 18, 19, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a7170 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 18 19 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 21 52

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 #8a7170 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a7170; }
.text { color: #8a7170; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a7170; }

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 #8a7170 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a7170 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 #8a7170 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 #8a7170 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

Here is how the numbers for #8a7170 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.