Brown Color Palettes: 164 Palettes With Hex Codes

Brown, a reference brownBrown

#7A4E2D

157 browns in the library

Pick any swatch to see its codes, its contrast and the palette it comes from.

01Put it to work

Can you read text on it?

White text looks like thisVery easy to read

Fine for any text, even small print. Contrast 7.1 to 1

Black text looks like thisHard to read

Avoid for text. Use it for shapes and backgrounds instead. Contrast 2.8 to 1

White text reads better here. The contrast number compares how light the text is with how light the colour behind it is. It runs from 1, where the text disappears, to 21, black on white. The web accessibility standard asks for at least 4.5 for normal text and 3 for big headlines.

Pick a swatch above to see it in its own palette, next to the colours it was chosen to sit with.

02Tints and shades

A ramp from 50 to 950 around #7A4E2D, in equal perceptual steps, for backgrounds, borders and hover states. Click a step to copy it.

03164 palettes with brown

04The styles that use it

Pueblo Revival7 Mid-Century Modern7 Bronze Age6 Dark Academia6 Prairie Style6 Trinket Design5 Classical Architecture5 Vernacular Architecture5 Cinematography4 Skeuomorphism4 Steampunk4 Brutalism4 Painting3 Music3 Sculpture3 Cubism3 Pottery / Ceramics3 Mixed Media3 Grunge3 Art Deco3 Wabi-Sabi3 Japandi3 Contemporary Architecture3 Adaptive Reuse3 Sustainable Architecture3 Critical Regionalism3 Soft Minimalism3 Architectural Expressionism3 Indie Groovy3 Liquid Retro3 Bohemian2 Abstract Expressionism2 Architecture2 Drawing / Sketch2 Artisanal Textile2 Printmaking2 Photography2 Analog Photography2 Neumorphism2 Psychedelic2

And 61 more, in the palettes above.

05Questions

How many brown colour palettes are there?

The Omoro library has 164 palettes with at least one brown, across 157 distinct brown swatches, each with its hex code.

What colours go with brown?

In the library's palettes, brown most often sits beside yellow, orange and green, with black and grey as the neutrals.

Which design styles use brown?

Pueblo Revival, Mid-Century Modern and Bronze Age use it most. 101 styles use it in all.

Goes withYellow 68%Orange 32%Green 17%Blue 10%Red 8%Pink 2%

06Shades of brown

Taupe Chocolate Brown

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