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Brown

Hex #A52A2A, rgb(165 42 42). A brown CSS named color.

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About Brown

Brown is a dark saturated brown with the hex code #A52A2A. In RGB it is made of 165 red, 42 green and 42 blue; in HSL its hue is 0°, with 59% saturation and 41% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 48.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "brown" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 7.08:1 and against black 2.96:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Brown mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Brown 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Brown

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Brown with white and black. The readable text color on Brown is white.

Brown textSmall text on white

On white7.08:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 83

Brown textSmall text on black

On black2.96:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc -19

White text on Brown (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Brown appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#4E4729
  • Deuteranopia#6D6226
  • Tritanopia#B6002C
  • Protanomaly#6F4427
  • Deuteranomaly#7B5726
  • Tritanomaly#AC1C2A
  • Achromatopsia#585858

Colors similar to Brown

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Brown in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.brown {
  color: brown; /* #A52A2A */
  background-color: rgb(165 42 42);
  border-color: oklch(48.1% 0.16 25.6);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-brown-500, text-brown-700... */
@theme {
  --color-brown-50: #FFF8F8;
  --color-brown-100: #FFE7E4;
  --color-brown-200: #FFCEC8;
  --color-brown-300: #FCA69E;
  --color-brown-400: #F07068;
  --color-brown-500: #E24B48;
  --color-brown-600: #C93837;
  --color-brown-700: #A52A2A;
  --color-brown-800: #832322;
  --color-brown-900: #6A1E1C;
  --color-brown-950: #300204;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#A52A2A] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>