Brown

#91796a

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

Brown sits in the orange range, mid and muted. A mid orange this warm suits food, sport and friendly brands. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #91796a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#91796a

RGB145, 121, 106

HSL23, 16%, 49%

HSV23, 27%, 57%

CMYK0%, 17%, 27%, 43%

Lab52.66, 6.89, 11.69

XYZ21.12, 20.74, 16.53

Decimal9533802

Web safe#996666

Pantone404 C

Shades of brown

#846e61 #786457 #6b594e #5e4f45 #51443b #453932 #382f29 #2b2420 #1e1916 #120f0d

Tints of brown

#9c8577 #a69285 #b09e93 #baaba1 #c5b7af #cfc4bd #d9d0cb #e3ddd9 #ede9e7 #f7f6f5

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#6a8291 Analogous#916a6e Analogous#918d6a Triadic#6a9179 Triadic#796a91 Split complementary#6a918d Split complementary#6a6f91

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, 17, 27, 43.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #91796a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 17 27 43

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 20 29 49

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 #91796a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #91796a; }
.text { color: #91796a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #91796a; }

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 #91796a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #91796a 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 #91796a 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 #91796a 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.

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How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #91796a is computed, not guessed. 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.