Brown

#921b3b

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

Brown sits in the pink band, deep and strong. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #921b3b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#921b3b

RGB146, 27, 59

HSL344, 69%, 34%

HSV344, 82%, 57%

CMYK0%, 82%, 60%, 43%

Lab32.28, 49.74, 12.38

XYZ13.04, 7.21, 4.84

Decimal9575227

Web safe#993333

Pantone1955 C

Shades of brown

#861936 #7a1731 #6e142c #621228 #561023 #4a0e1e #3e0b19 #320914 #26070f #1a050a

Tints of brown

#ad2046 #c82551 #d93360 #de4e75 #e3698a #e8849f #ed9fb4 #f2bac9 #f7d5de #fcf0f3

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#1b9272 Analogous#921b76 Analogous#92361b Triadic#3b921b Triadic#1b3b92 Split complementary#1b9237 Split complementary#1b7692

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, 82, 60, 43.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #921b3b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 82 60 43

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 79 59 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 #921b3b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #921b3b; }
.text { color: #921b3b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #921b3b; }

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 #921b3b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #921b3b 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 #921b3b 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 #921b3b 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 #921b3b 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.