Brown

#908f5d

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

Brown falls in the yellow band, mid and muted. A yellow this strong grabs attention fast, good for warnings and energy brands. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #908f5d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#908f5d

RGB144, 143, 93

HSL59, 22%, 46%

HSV59, 35%, 56%

CMYK0%, 1%, 35%, 44%

Lab58.38, -7.68, 26.78

XYZ23.3, 26.36, 14.22

Decimal9473885

Web safe#999966

Pantone5767 C

Shades of brown

#838355 #77764d #6a6a45 #5e5d3d #515135 #45442c #383824 #2c2b1c #1f1f14 #13120c

Tints of brown

#9e9d69 #a8a778 #b2b188 #bcbb97 #c6c5a7 #d0cfb6 #dadac6 #e4e4d5 #eeeee5 #f8f8f4

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#5d5e90 Analogous#90765d Analogous#78905d Triadic#5d908f Triadic#8f5d90 Split complementary#5d7890 Split complementary#755d90

Brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 1, 35, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #908f5d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 1 35 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 5 36 50

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 #908f5d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #908f5d; }
.text { color: #908f5d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #908f5d; }

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 #908f5d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #908f5d 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 #908f5d 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 #908f5d 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 #908f5d come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.