Brown

#7e7e6c

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

Brown is a mid yellow, balanced at this saturation. A yellow this strong grabs attention fast, good for warnings and energy brands. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Brown color values

Every conversion for #7e7e6c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7e7e6c

RGB126, 126, 108

HSL60, 8%, 46%

HSV60, 14%, 49%

CMYK0%, 0%, 14%, 51%

Lab52.33, -3.35, 9.82

XYZ18.77, 20.44, 17.14

Decimal8289900

Web safe#666666

Pantone424 C

Shades of brown

#737363 #686859 #5d5d50 #525246 #47473d #3c3c34 #31312a #262621 #1b1b18 #10100e

Tints of brown

#8c8c78 #979786 #a3a394 #afafa2 #bbbbb0 #c7c7be #d3d3cc #dfdfda #ebebe7 #f7f7f5

Colors that go with brown

Complementary#6c6c7e Analogous#7e756c Analogous#757e6c Triadic#6c7e7e Triadic#7e6c7e Split complementary#6c757e Split complementary#756c7e

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, 14, 51.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7e7e6c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 0 14 51

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 4 17 57

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.

Brown in css

Copy #7e7e6c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7e7e6c; }
.text { color: #7e7e6c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7e7e6c; }

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 #7e7e6c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7e7e6c against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #7e7e6c 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #7e7e6c 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

The figures for #7e7e6c come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.