Shades of brown

Brown
Common connotations
Autumn, Thanksgiving, earth, dirt, chocolate
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#964B00
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(150, 75, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(30°, 100%, 59%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(40, 72, 31°)
Source	ColorXS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Some shades of Brown
Red Brown (X11)
Pale Brown
Medium Brown
Dark Brown
Light Brown

Shades of brown can be produced by combining red, yellow, and black^[1] pigments, or by a combination of orange and black—illustrated in the color box. The RGB color model, that generates all colors on computer and television screens, makes brown by combining red and green light at different intensities. Brown color names are often imprecise, and some shades, such as beige, can refer to lighter rather than darker shades of yellow and red. Such colors are less saturated than colors perceived to be orange. Browns are usually described as light or dark, reddish, yellowish, or gray-brown. There are no standardized names for shades of brown; the same shade may have different names on different color lists, and sometimes one name (such as beige or puce) can refer to several very different colors. The X11 color list of web colors has seventeen different shades of brown, but the complete list of browns is much longer.

Brown colors are typically desaturated shades of reds, oranges, and yellows which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. Browns can also be created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color model (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available blue pigments tend to be comparatively weaker; the stronger red and yellow colors prevail, thus creating brown tones.

Displayed here are some common brown shades. Some of them are associated with (any of various types of) soil, rock, or vegetation and are thus also classifiable among the earth tones.