Brown

#a63f40

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

Brown lands in the red band, mid and soft. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #a63f40, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a63f40

RGB166, 63, 64

HSL359, 45%, 45%

HSV359, 62%, 65%

CMYK0%, 62%, 61%, 35%

Lab41.27, 42.55, 21.79

XYZ18.43, 12.03, 6.2

Decimal10895168

Web safe#993333

Pantone1807 C

Shades of brown

#983a3a #893435 #7b2f2f #6c292a #5e2424 #501e1f #411919 #331314 #250e0e #160809

Tints of brown

#b94647 #c0595a #c76d6d #cf8080 #d69393 #dda6a6 #e4b9b9 #eccccc #f3dfdf #faf2f2

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#3fa6a5 Analogous#a63f73 Analogous#a6723f Triadic#40a63f Triadic#3f40a6 Split complementary#3fa672 Split complementary#3f74a6

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, 62, 61, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a63f40 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 62 61 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 61 60 41

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 #a63f40 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a63f40; }
.text { color: #a63f40; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a63f40; }

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 #a63f40 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a63f40 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 #a63f40 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 #a63f40 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 #a63f40 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.