Deep brown

#6c1928

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for deep brown, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Deep brown lands in the red band, deep and strong. Deep reds like this carry heritage and premium packaging well. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Deep brown color values

Every conversion for #6c1928, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6c1928

RGB108, 25, 40

HSL349, 62%, 26%

HSV349, 77%, 42%

CMYK0%, 77%, 63%, 58%

Lab23.79, 37.21, 12.36

XYZ6.91, 4.04, 2.42

Decimal7084328

Web safe#660033

Pantone505 C

Shades of deep brown

#641725 #5b1522 #53131f #4b111c #420f19 #3a0d16 #320c12 #290a0f #21080c #190609

Tints of deep brown

#892033 #a6273e #c32d48 #d3425c #da5f75 #e17c8e #e799a7 #eeb6c0 #f5d3d9 #fcf1f3

Colors that go with deep brown

Complementary#196c5d Analogous#6c1951 Analogous#6c3419 Triadic#286c19 Triadic#19286c Split complementary#196c34 Split complementary#19516c

Deep brown in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 77, 63, 58.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6c1928 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 77 63 58

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 75 62 64

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Deep brown in css

Copy #6c1928 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6c1928; }
.text { color: #6c1928; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6c1928; }

How deep brown looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Deep brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #6c1928 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6c1928 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Deep brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #6c1928 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around deep brown? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn deep brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #6c1928 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from deep brown, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #6c1928 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.