Brown - Definition and Overview

For other uses, see Brown (disambiguation).

Brown is a color produced by mixing small intensities of red and green, orange and blue, or yellow and purple pigment. Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast.

An example of a brown color in the RGB color space has intensities [150, 75, 0] on a 0 to 255 scale.

Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions

• Brown is the colour of the snooker ball which has a 4-point value.
• Brown is the colour of the soil

Color coordinates

Hex triplet = #964B00
RGB    (r, g, b)     = (150, 75, 0)
CMYK   (c, m, y, k)  = (0, 74, 150, 105)
HSV    (h, s, v)     = (30, 100, 59)

See also

• List of colors