Brown

#a02f4e

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. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #a02f4e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a02f4e

RGB160, 47, 78

HSL344, 55%, 41%

HSV344, 71%, 63%

CMYK0%, 71%, 51%, 37%

Lab37.94, 48.58, 8.35

XYZ16.89, 10.06, 8.26

Decimal10497870

Web safe#993366

Pantone215 C

Shades of brown

#922b47 #852741 #77233a #691f33 #5c1b2d #4e1726 #41131f #330f19 #250b12 #18070c

Tints of brown

#b63559 #c74166 #ce5777 #d46d89 #db839b #e199ad #e8afbf #eec5d0 #f4dbe2 #fbf1f4

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#2fa081 Analogous#a02f86 Analogous#a0492f Triadic#4ea02f Triadic#2f4ea0 Split complementary#2fa049 Split complementary#2f86a0

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, 71, 51, 37.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a02f4e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 71 51 37

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 69 51 43

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 #a02f4e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a02f4e; }
.text { color: #a02f4e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a02f4e; }

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 #a02f4e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a02f4e 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 #a02f4e 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 #a02f4e 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 #a02f4e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.