Deep brown

#4e4e40

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

Deep brown falls in the yellow band, deep and grey. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Deep brown color values

Every conversion for #4e4e40, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e4e40

RGB78, 78, 64

HSL60, 10%, 28%

HSV60, 18%, 31%

CMYK0%, 0%, 18%, 69%

Lab32.79, -2.8, 8.31

XYZ6.79, 7.44, 5.93

Decimal5131840

Web safe#666633

Pantone446 C

Shades of deep brown

#48483b #424236 #3c3c31 #36362c #2f2f27 #292922 #23231d #1d1d18 #171713 #11110e

Tints of deep brown

#616150 #747460 #88886f #989882 #a8a895 #b8b8a8 #c8c8bb #d7d7cf #e7e7e2 #f7f7f5

Colors that go with deep brown

Complementary#40404e Analogous#4e4740 Analogous#474e40 Triadic#404e4e Triadic#4e404e Split complementary#40474e Split complementary#47404e

Deep 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, 0, 18, 69.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e4e40 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 0 18 69

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 4 21 75

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Deep brown in css

Copy #4e4e40 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e4e40; }
.text { color: #4e4e40; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e4e40; }

How deep brown looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Deep brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #4e4e40 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e4e40 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Deep brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #4e4e40 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around deep brown? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn deep brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #4e4e40 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 deep brown, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #4e4e40 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.