97 Color names for "Shades Of Brown"

Brown can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. 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. 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, although it does also have positive associations include baking, warmth, wildlife, and the autumn.

Bistre brown can be described as a medium brownish tone of the color bistre, also known as soot brown. This is the tone of bistre that most closely matches the color sample in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul. This tone of bistre is the color of the ink that was used by the Old Masters for their drawings. The normalized color coordinates for bistre brown are identical to the color names drab, sand dune, and mode beige, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1925, and 1928.

The first recorded use of golden brown as a color name in English was in the year 1891. Golden brown is commonly referenced in recipes as the desired color of properly baked and fried foods.

The color shown in the color box is the color normally and traditionally regarded as brown—a medium dark orange. Its h (hue) code is 30, which signifies a shade of orange.

Bole is a shade of reddish brown. The color term derives from Latin bōlus (or dirt) and refers to a kind of soft fine clay whose reddish-brown varieties are used as pigments, and as a coating in panel paintings and frames underneath the paint or gold leaf.Under gold leaf, it "warms" the colour, which can have a greenish shade otherwise.However, bole in art is a good deal more red and less brown than the modern shade; it is often called Armenian bole. Although bole also means the trunk of a tree, these words are simply homographs that do not share an etymological origin.

The color known as brown in the RYB color model is created by mixing equal parts of red, yellow, and blue.

Coyote brown, also known as nutria, is a color, often used in military camouflage.Coyote brown belongs to the dull yellow color subspectrum.

Cinereous is a color, ashy gray in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a gray color tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereous, from cinis (ashes). The first recorded use of cinereous as a color name in English was in 1661.

Russet is a dark brown color with a reddish-orange tinge. As a tertiary color, russet is an equal mix of orange and purple pigments. The first recorded use of russet as a color name in English was in 1562. The source of this color is The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names (1955) used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps. However, it is widely considered hard to standardize, and the same vary name could be applied to various tones; russet often has no more specific meaning than ruddy or reddish. The name of this color derives from russet, a coarse cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or reddish-brown shade. By the statute of 1363, poor English people were required to wear russet.'

Saddle Brown is a mid brown common for the stained leather of a saddle. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, was a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh. Mummy brown was extremely popular from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. However, fresh supplies of mummies diminished, and artists were less satisfied with the pigment's permanency and finish. By 1915, demand had significantly declined. Suppliers ceased to offer it by the middle of the twentieth century. Mummy brown was one of the favourite colours of the Pre-Raphaelites. It was used by many artists, including Eugene Delacroix, William Beechey, Edward Burne-Jones, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Martin Drolling.

The color shown is called Puce in the Pourpre.com color list, which is widely popular in France. This is the original puce, from which all other tones of puce ultimately derive.

Coffee is a brownish color that is a representation of the color of a roasted coffee bean. Different types of coffee beans have different colors when roasted—the color coffee represents an average. The first recorded use of coffee as a color name in English was in 1695. The normalized color coordinates for coffee are identical to Tuscan brown, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1913.

Taupe brown is a very dark shade of tan that almost appears brown. It is shown as the color taupe brown in ISCC-NBS color sample #46 and is also known as medium taupe.

Burnt umber is made by heating raw umber, which dehydrates the iron oxides and changes them partially to the more reddish hematite. It is used for both oil and water color paint. The first recorded use of burnt umber as a color name in English was in 1650.

This is the color of a healthy human liver. It may range from brown to reddish brown, and the color represented in the adjacent box is the gross average of these shades. These healthy tones usually indicate blood flow, which is why livers and other meat turn grayish-brown when cooked.

Seal brown is a rich dark brown color, resembling the color of the dyed fur from the fur seal.

The first recorded use of Tuscan brown as a color name in English was in 1913. The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan brown are identical to coffee, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1695.

Chocolate cosmos, or red cosmos is the color of Cosmos atrosanguineus flowering plant. The color is described as dark red, deep crimson, deeper burgundy, deep red chocolate, as dark hazelnut and velvety maroon.

Beaver is a shade of brown representative of the color of a beaver. At a hue of 22, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of beaver as a color name in English was in 1705. The color "beaver" was formulated as one of the Crayola colors in 1998. Etymologically, it's believed that the words "brown" and "beaver" ultimately stem from the same root word in English.

Sand dune is a color that resembles the color of a sand dune composed of dark colored sand. The first recorded use of sand dune as a color name in English was in 1925. The normalized color coordinates for sand dune are identical to the color names drab, mode beige and bistre brown, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1928, and 1930.

Sepia is a reddish-brown color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia. The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Greek σηπία, sēpía, cuttlefish. Sepia ink was commonly used for writing in Greco-Roman civilization. It remained in common use as an artist's drawing material until the 19th century.

Walnut brown is a dark brown color; a representation of the color made from walnut hulls. At a hue of 30, it is classified as an orange-brown.

Van Dyke (Vandyke) brown, also known as Cassel earth or Cologne earth, is a deep, rich, and warm brown colour often used in painting and printmaking. Early publications on the pigment refer to it as Cassel (or Kassel) earth or Cologne earth in reference to its city of origin; however, today it is typically called Van Dyke brown after the painter Anthony van Dyck. The colour was originally made from peat or soil, and has been applied as both watercolour and oil paints. Today, the pigment is made by combining asphaltum-like black with iron oxide. This replicates the colour of the original iron oxide-rich earth found in Cassel and Cologne, Germany.

The web color "brown" is a medium dark red traditionally known as red-brown. Its hue code is 0, indicating it's a shade of red, not orange. The first recorded use of "red-brown" as a color name in English was in 1682.

UP Maroon is the shade used by the University of the Philippines as its primary color.

Sienna (from Italian: terra di Siena, meaning "Siena earth") is an earth pigment containing iron oxide and manganese oxide.In its natural state, it is yellowish brown and is called raw sienna.When heated, it becomes a reddish brown and is called burnt sienna. It takes its name from the city-state of Siena, where it was produced during the Renaissance. Along with ochre and umber,it was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings.Since the Renaissance, it has been one of the brown pigments most widely used by artists. The first recorded use of sienna as a color name in English was in 1760. The normalized color coordinates for sienna are identical to kobe, first recorded as a color name in English in 1924.

Wood brown is a color that resembles wood. At a hue of 33, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of wood brown as a color name in English was in Robert Ridgway's 1886 book Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. Ridgway further refined the details of its color coordinates in his 1912 publication Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. The normalized color coordinates for wood brown are identical to fallow, camel and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, 1916, and 1920, respectively.

The color chocolate is a shade of brown that resembles chocolate. The first recorded use of chocolate as a color name in English was in 1737. This color is a representation of the color of the most common type of chocolate, milk chocolate.

Bistre (or bister) can refer to two things: a very dark shade of grayish brown (the version shown in the color box); a shade of brown made from soot, or the name for a color resembling the brownish pigment. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast. Beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their drawings. The first recorded use of bistre as a color name in English was in 1727; another name for the color bistre issoot brown.

Cigar brown is a brown shade resembling the color of cigars.

The color kobicha is one of the Japanese traditional colors that has been in use since 660 CE in the form of various dyes used in designing kimono. The name kobicha comes from the Japanese for the colour of a type of kelp tea, but the word was often used as a synonym for a form of flattery in a curious parallel with the English usage brown nosing.

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.

Medium Tuscan red is that tone of Tuscan red that is called Tuscan red in the ISCC-NBS color list.

This is the color raw umber. Burnt umber is produced by calcining the raw version. The raw form of umber is typically used for ceramics because it is less expensive.

Mode beige is a very dark shade of beige. The first recorded use of mode beige as a color name in English was in 1928. The normalized color coordinates for mode beige are identical to the color names drab, sand dune, and bistre brown, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1925, and 1930.

Light taupe (dark tan) is the light tone of taupe that is the color called taupe in Crayola colored pencils.

The color rosewood is named after rosewood, any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours. It is hard, tough, strong, and dense. True rosewoods come from trees of the genus Dalbergia, but other woods are often called rosewood. Rosewood takes a high polish and is used for luxury furniture-making, flooring, musical instruments, and turnery. The first recorded use of rosewood as a color name in English was in 1892.

The color dark lava is the color of lava that has cooled and begun to congeal into igneous rock. The normalized color coordinates for dark lava are identical to taupe, which came into use as a color name in English in the early 19th century;

Sandy brown is a web color that resembles the color of certain types of sand, as its name suggests.

The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926. The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan tan are identical to café au lait and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 and 1927, respectively.

Dark brown is a dark tone of color brown. At a hue of 19, it is classified as a black-brown.

Café noir, also known as black coffee, is a color that represents the hue of brewed black coffee. The first recorded use of "café noir" as a color name in English dates back to 1928.

This infobox shows the colour dark sienna. This variation is from the ISCC-NBS colour list. A similar dark sienna paint was frequently used on Bob Ross's TV show, The Joy of Painting.

The first recorded use of liver as a color name in English was in 1686. Liver may also refer to a group of certain types of dark brown color in dogs and horses. Said nomenclature may also refer to the color of the organ.

Field drab is one of the twelve official camouflage colors of the United States Army.

Raw sienna is a yellowish-brown natural earth pigment, composed primarily of iron oxide hydroxide. The box shows the colour of the pigment in its natural, or raw state. It contains a large quantity of iron oxide and a small quantity (about five percent) of manganese oxide. This kind of pigment is known as yellow ochre, yellow earth, limonite, or terra gialla.The pigment name for natural raw sienna from the Colour Index International, shown on the labels of oil paints,is PY-43. This color box shows a variation of Raw Sienna from the Italian Ferrario 1919 color list.

The color Sandy Taupe is a warm, earthy shade of brown, often referred to as Olive Brown. It has golden undertones, giving it a rich and rustic appearance. Another name of this color is Taupe sand.

The web color Liver (dogs) is a dark brown shade, similar to the coat color of some liver-colored dogs. This coat color is the result of a dilution of eumelanin (black pigment), producing various shades of brown. The color associated with #5D3B1A fits within the spectrum of what is often referred to as "Liver," "Chocolate," or "Brown."

Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of withered foliage or sandy soil in fallow fields. Fallow is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of Fallow as a color name in English was in the year 1000. The color was historically often used to describe the coats of some animals, such as fallow deer. The normalized color coordinates for Fallow are identical to Wood brown, Camel and Desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1886, 1916, and 1920, respectively.