Shades of Brown

Explore the most common shades of brown with their hex codes. Find the perfect brown for your next design project.

From the deepest, most saturated tones to the lightest pastels, brown appears in nearly every design discipline — branding, interiors, fashion, and digital UI. The 30 shades below are the most commonly used named variants of brown, each with a precise hex code you can copy directly into your design tool.

Looking for the right pairing? See colors that go with brown. Need a different format? Try our format converters for HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH, and CMYK.

Featured shade

Chocolate

Chocolate is the canonical brown in this collection. Below is its full breakdown across every common color format — useful when you need the same color in CSS, a design tool, or a print workflow.

HEX#7B3F00
RGBrgb(123, 63, 0)
HSLhsl(31, 100%, 24%)
OKLCHoklch(43.5% 0.105 57)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 49%, 100%, 52%)

Colors that go with brown

Brown is essentially a desaturated orange or red, so its complements lean blue. The safest pairings are warm whites (cream, ivory, bone) and natural greens (sage, olive, forest).

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