Brown
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- For other senses of this word, see Brown (disambiguation).
Brown, when used as a general term, is a color which is a dark orange, red or rose, of very low intensity.
Some pale orange and yellow colors of lower saturation are called light browns.
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[edit] Brown
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| Hex triplet | #964B00 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (150, 75, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (30°, 100%, 59%) |
| Source | [Unsourced] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color brown is displayed at right. Another name for this color (rarely used) is dark orange.
Brown paint can be produced by adding black or their complementary colors to rose, red, orange, or yellow colored paint. As a color of low intensity it is a tertiary color in the original technical sense: a mix of the three subtractive primary colors is brown if the cyan content is low. Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast: orange, red, or rose objects are still perceived as such if the general illumination level is low, despite reflecting the same amount of red or orange light as a brown object would in normal lighting conditions.
The first recorded use of brown as a color name in English was in 1000. [1]
[edit] Shades of brown color comparison chart
- Cornsilk (web color) (Hex: #FFF8DC) (RGB: 255, 248, 220)
- Beige (web color) (Hex: #F5F5DC) (RGB: 245, 245, 220)
- Antique White (web color) (Hex: #FAEBD7) (RGB: 250, 235, 215)
- Blanched Almond (web color) (Hex: #FFEBCD) (RGB: 255, 235, 205)
- Bisque (web color) (Hex: #FFE4C4) (RGB: 255, 228, 196)
- Wheat (web color) (Hex: #F5DEB3) (RGB: 245, 222, 179)
- Navajo White (web color) (Hex: #FFDEAD) (RGB: 255, 222, 173)
- Light Khaki (X11 "Khaki") (Hex: #F0E68C) (RGB: 240, 230, 140)
- Buff (Hex: #F0DC82) (RGB: 240, 220, 130)
- Zinnwaldite (Hex: #EBC2AF) (RGB: 235, 194, 175)
- Burlywood (web color) (Hex: #DEB887) (RGB: 222, 184, 135)
- Ecru (Hex: #CDB891) (RGB: 205, 184, 145)
- Khaki (HTML/CSS) (Hex: #C3B091) (RGB: 195, 176, 145)
- Tan (web color) (Hex: #D2B48C) (RGB: 210, 180, 140)
- Tumbleweed (Crayola) (Hex: #DEA681) (RGB: 222, 166, 129)
- Pale Taupe (Hex: #BC987E) (RGB: 188, 152, 126)
- Dark Khaki (X11 "Dark Khaki") (Hex: #BDB76B) (RGB: 189, 183, 107)
- Fallow (Hex: #C19A6B) (RGB: 193, 154, 107)
- Rosy Brown (web color) (Hex: #BC8F8F) (RGB: 188, 143, 143)
- Terra Cotta (Hex: #E2725B) (RGB: 226, 114, 91)
- Bittersweet (Crayola) (Hex: #FE6F5E) (RGB: 254, 111, 94)
- Sandy Brown (web color) (Hex: #F4A460) (RGB: 244, 164, 96)
- Goldenrod (web color) (Hex: #DAA520) (RGB: 218, 165, 32)
- Ochre (Hex: #CC7722) (RGB: 204, 119, 34)
- Brass (Hex: #C3A368) (RGB: 195, 163, 104)
- Antique Brass (Crayola) (Hex: #C88A65) (RGB: 200, 138, 101)
- Bronze (Hex: #CD7F32) (RGB: 205, 127, 50)
- Copper (Hex: #B87333) (RGB: 184, 115, 51)
- Dark Goldenrod (web color) (Hex: #B8860B) (RGB: 184, 134, 11)
- Sandy Taupe (Hex: #967117) (RGB: 150, 113, 23)
- Shadow (Crayola) (Hex: #837050) (RGB: 131, 112, 80)
- Beaver (Crayola) (Hex: #926F5B) (RGB: 146, 111, 91)
- Pale Brown (Hex: #987654) (RGB: 152, 118, 54)
- Peru (web color) (Hex: #CD5700) (RGB: 205, 133, 63)
- Chocolate (web color) (Hex: #D2691E) (RGB: 210, 105, 30)
- Tenne (Tawny) (Hex: #CD5700) (RGB: 205, 87, 0)
- Burnt Orange (Hex: #CC5500) (RGB: 204, 85, 0)
- Mahogany (Hex: #C04000) (RGB: 192, 64, 0)
- Dark Terra Cotta (Hex: #CC4E3C) (RGB: 204, 78, 92)
- Chestnut (Indian Red [web color]) (Hex: #CD5C5C) (RGB: 205, 92, 92)
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Brown (Crayola) (Hex: #C45655) (RGB: 196, 86, 55)
- Deep Chestnut (Vermont Maple Syrup) (Crayola Chestnut [formerly Indian Red]) (Hex: #B94E48) (RGB: 185, 78, 72)
- Dark Chestnut (Hex: #986960) (RGB: 152, 105, 96)
- Medium Brown (Crayola Brown) (Hex: #AF593E) (RGB: 175, 89, 67)
- Sienna (web color) (Hex: #A05220) (RGB: 160, 82, 45)
- BROWN (Hex: #964B00) (RGB: 150, 75, 0)
- Saddle Brown (web color) (Hex: #8B4513) (RGB: 139, 69, 13)
- Rust (Hex: #64417) (RGB: 183, 65, 14)
- Russet (Hex: #804618) (RGB: 128, 70, 27)
- Burnt Umber (Hex: #8A3324) (RGB: 138, 51, 36)
- Red-Brown (web color Brown) (Hex: #A52A2A) (RGB: 165, 42, 42)
- Burgundy (Hex: #900020) (RGB: 144, 0, 32)
- Maroon (Hex: #800000) (RGB: 128, 0, 0)
- Auburn (Hex: #712F26) (RGB: 113, 47, 38)
- Raw Umber (Hex: #734A12) (RGB: 115, 74, 18)
- Pullman Brown (UPS Brown) (Hex: #644117) (RGB: 100, 65, 23)
- Dark Brown (Hex: #654321) (RGB: 101, 67, 33)
- Sepia (Hex: #734212) (RGB: 112, 66, 20)
- Bole (Hex: #79443B) (RGB: 121, 68, 59)
- Medium Taupe (Hex: #674C47) (RGB: 103, 76, 21)
- Taupe (Hex: #483C32) (RGB: 72, 60, 50)
- Liver (Hex: #534B4F) (RGB: 83, 75, 79)
- Bistre (Hex: #3D2B1F) (RGB: 61, 43, 31)
- Seal Brown (Hex: #321414) (RGB: 50, 20, 20)
[edit] Brown in human culture
- Astronomers have recently detected the existence of the long theorized formerly hypothetical but now known to be actual astronomical objects called brown dwarves, which are intermediate in mass between a gas giant planet and a star. (Website about brown dwarves: [1] )
- Pullman Brown (shown above in the color comparison chart) is the color of the United Parcel Service (UPS) delivery company with their trademark brown trucks and uniforms. UPS Brown (which is often incorrectly claimed to be Pantone 0607298, which is in reality not a valid pantone number) is a trademark of UPS. In its advertising, UPS refers to itself as "Brown" ("What can Brown do for you?").
- To brown food is to oxidise the outside by heating, as under a broiler or in a frying pan, until it turns brown.
- Beef, Venison, Duck, and Lamb are all meats that are colored brown.
- Brown sugar is a favorite topping for porridge served with milk, a favorite breakfast food.
- In the billiard game of Snooker the 4-point snooker ball is brown.
- To "pull a Brown" is to play poker and believe in bad luck, much like the famed Matthew Brown did when he was the Texas Hold 'Em Aficionado Supremo in El Paso, TX.
- Brown is sometimes used to refer to brown people in general or sometimes more specifically to the darker skinned Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Caucasoids of South Asia[2] or to Latin Americans.
- The term brown or bronze may be used by mestizo Hispanics to describe themselves, and by extension these terms may sometimes be applied to all Hispanics, even those of purely European ancestry.
- Austronesians in the 19th Century and 20th Century were often referred to as the Malayan race or brown race.
- The colors brown and orange represent the United States and Canadian holiday of Thanksgiving.
- Brown Sugar is one of the most popular songs by the Rolling Stones (Album: Sticky Fingers). [2]
- The song "Brown Eyed Girl" is by the artist Van Morrison (Album: Blowin' Your Mind!).
- The song "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" is by the artist Primus (Album: Tales from the Punchbowl).
- Brown is the color of many soils, animals, tree barks, feces and many other things in nature.
- In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, the German Nazi paramilitary organization the Sturmabteilung (SA) wore brown uniforms and were known as the brownshirts. It was often said of members of the SA that they were like a beefsteak--"brown on the outside, and red on the inside"--because many of them were former Communists. The color brown was used to represent the Nazi vote on maps of electoral districts in Germany. If someone voted for the Nazis, they were said to be "voting brown". The national headquarters of the Nazi party, in Munich, was called the Brown House. At Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg home, the Berghof, he slept in a "bed which was usually covered by a brown quilt embroidered with a huge swastika. The swastika also appeared on Hitler's brown satin pajamas, embroidered in black against a red background on the pocket. He had a matching brown silk robe." [3]
- Brown is often used as a color of athletic jerseys and logos. Perhaps the most notable are the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. The team got its name from its founder and long-time coach, Paul Brown. The St. Louis Browns are a former Major League Baseball team, now known as the Baltimore Orioles. For about 25 years, the San Diego Padres had brown as a primary team color.
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[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191
- ^ Ahmed, Tanzila. Alternet mix the message. Desi Power Online. 2006. September 9, 2006. <http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/33078/>.
- ^ Infield, Glenn B. Eva and Adolf New York:1974--Grosset and Dunlap Page 142 (The author compiled this book by interviewing Albert Speer and others who had been in Hitler's innner circle, such as SS men, secretaries, and housekeepers. The author also consulted the Musmanno Archives, a record of post-war interviews with over 200 people who had been close to Adolph Hitler or Eva Braun.)
