brown

Also known as color brown, brown color, colour brown, brown colour

Brown is a color. It can be thought as a darker, typically desaturated shade of orange, and can often be produced by combining red and yellow with another color, namely blue.

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Brown is a color that can be created by mixing red and yellow with blue, resulting in a darker and less vibrant shade of orange. It's a common color in nature and everyday life, making it useful for artists, designers, and anyone working with color.

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Color.title: Brown
Color.hex: 964B00
Color.source: CSS Colour Module Level 3
Color.caption: From top, left to right:Dark brown roasted coffee beans, brown bear (Moscow Zoo), the planet Mars, amber brown iris of an eye, brown oil-paper umbrella against brown wooden house (Luang Prabang, Laos).

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Image: Color icon brown.svg

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Commons category: Brown
sRGB color hex triplet: 964B00
CSS color keyword: brown
P8168: Žemaičių Naumiestis
OpenStreetMap tag: colour=brown

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Etymology
History and art
Ancient history
Post-classical history
Modern history
17th and 18th century
19th and 20th century
Brown in science and nature
Optics
Brown pigments, dyes and inks
Brown eyes
Brown hair
Brown skin
Soil
Mammals and birds
Biology
Brown in culture
Brown uniforms
Business
Idioms and expressions
Religion
Sports
Image examples in nature and culture
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Brown is a color. It can be thought as a darker, typically desaturated shade of orange, and can often be produced by combining red and yellow with another color, namely blue.

In the RYB color model, brown is made by mixing the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining yellow ink with smaller amounts of magenta and black inks. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is the result of combining red light at low intensity, and green light at an even lower intensity, with blue light also being present in most shades of the color.