Brown

#b03b3b

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. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #b03b3b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b03b3b

RGB176, 59, 59

HSL0, 50%, 46%

HSV0, 66%, 69%

CMYK0%, 66%, 66%, 31%

Lab42.27, 47.51, 26.46

XYZ20.26, 12.67, 5.52

Decimal11549499

Web safe#993333

Pantone703 C

Shades of brown

#a13636 #913131 #822c2c #732626 #632121 #541c1c #451717 #361212 #260d0d #170808

Tints of brown

#c04444 #c75858 #cd6b6b #d47e7e #da9191 #e1a5a5 #e7b8b8 #eecbcb #f4dede #fbf2f2

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#3bb0b0 Analogous#b03b76 Analogous#b0763b Triadic#3bb03b Triadic#3b3bb0 Split complementary#3bb076 Split complementary#3b75b0

Brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 66, 66, 31.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b03b3b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 66 66 31

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 65 65 37

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 #b03b3b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b03b3b; }
.text { color: #b03b3b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b03b3b; }

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 #b03b3b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b03b3b 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 #b03b3b 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 #b03b3b 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

Here is how the numbers for #b03b3b are worked out. 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.