Brown
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Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors orange and black.[2][3][4] In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown combines red and green.
Brown | |
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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[1] |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
The color brown is seen widely in nature, wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil.[5]
According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; it is often associated with plainness, the rustic, feces, and poverty,[6] although it does also have positive associations, including baking, warmth, wildlife and autumn.