Red Brown Color Codes

Red Brown is a dark, saturated red with the hex code #A52A2F, RGB values of 165, 42, 47 and an HSL value of hsl(358, 59%, 41%).

HEX	#A52A2F
RGB	165, 42, 47
HSL	hsl(358, 59%, 41%)
HSV	358°, 75%, 65%
CMYK	0%, 75%, 72%, 35%
LAB	37.60, 49.92, 27.60
CIELCHuv	37.60, 92.38, 11.06°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 704 C ΔE 3.2 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: brown ΔE 3.0

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Red Brown Color Hex Code

The Red Brown color hex code is #A52A2F. Those six digits are three pairs, A5 for red, 2A for green and 2F for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#A52A2F

Red Brown Color RGB Code

The Red Brown RGB code is rgb(165, 42, 47). Red carries the most light at 165 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(165, 42, 47)

Red Brown Color HSV Code

The Red Brown HSV code is 358°, 75%, 65%. Read it as a hue of 358 degrees, 75% saturation and 65% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

358°, 75%, 65%

Red Brown Color CIELChuv Code

The Red Brown CIELCHuv code is 37.60, 92.38, 11.06°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 38 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 92 is how far it sits from grey.

37.60, 92.38, 11.06°

Tonal scale

What are Red Brown Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

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Palettes

What are Red Brown Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #A52A2F. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #2AA5A0, a mid-tone, saturated teal. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Either side sit #A52A6D and #A5632A, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#2FA52A and #2A2FA5 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #2AA563 and #2A6DA5. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #2AA5A0, and #6DA52A with #622AA5. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

7.07:1

7.07

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

2.97:1

2.97

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Red Brown clears WCAG AA against white at 7.07:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 7.07:1.

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Color vision

How Red Brown looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#82812E

Red Brown changes substantially here. ΔE 64.6

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#878E2E

Red Brown changes substantially here. ΔE 71.2

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#A12D2D

Red Brown holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 2.6

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#585858

Red Brown changes substantially here. ΔE 57.0

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Red Brown reads as #878E2E. That is a shift of ΔE 71.2, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 71.2. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

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Snippets

Using Red Brown in code

:root {
  --red-brown: #A52A2F;
}

.example {
  color: var(--red-brown);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'red-brown': '#A52A2F',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let redBrown = Color(
    red: 0.647,
    green: 0.165,
    blue: 0.184
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="red_brown">#A52A2F</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const redBrown = Color(0xFFA52A2F);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Red Brown Color?

Red Brown reads as craft and durability. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 59% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 38 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Red Brown Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Brown (#A52A2A), though it is not a match: Delta-E 3.0 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 704 C at #9E2828. The name Red Brown comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Red Brown Color Made?

On a screen Red Brown is made by additive light: 165 red, 42 green and 47 blue out of 255, with red leading and 42 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 75%, 72%, 35%. Starting from the pure hue at 358 degrees, Red Brown is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.