Brown colour

Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proportions. In painting, brown is generally made by adding black to orange. Mixing red-green-blue pigments makes mud color. The brown color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; the color is most often associated with plainness, the rustic and poverty.The Sahara Desert around the Kufra Oasis, Libya, seen from spaceChocolate. A sachertorte in a Vienna cafe.Espresso-roasted coffee beans.Oak barrels in a winery in Chianti, Italy.U.S. Navy sailors dressed in khaki at a ceremony. The word khaki means 'earth' in the Persian language.A dun-colored horse. Donn is the word for brown in the Scottish and Irish Gaelic languages.Pieces of natural amberA bodybuilder who has been suntanning.Pieces of caramel.A sepia tone photograph (1895)A monk of the Franciscan order. Plain brown wool symbolizes humility.An ochre quarry in Rustrel, FranceLayers of soil in Ireland. Dark brown soil usually contains a high amount of decayed organic matter.Different sorts of chestnutsRusset potatoes. They take their name from the color of russet, a coarse brown homespun cloth.Beige is a very light brown color, taking its name from the French word for the color of natural wool.Puce is defined in the United States and UK as a brownish-purple or purple-brown color. In France, where it was invented, it is described as a dark reddish brown.The color taupe takes its name from the French word for this animal, the European Mole.The color drab is a dull light brown, which takes its name from drap, the old French word for undyed wool cloth. It is best known for the olive-green shade called olive drab, formerly worn by U.S. soldiers. Drab has come to mean dull, lifeless and monotonous.The clay soil near Siena, Italy, is the color called raw sienna.Painting of a dun horse on the wall of Lascaux Cave in France.Tomb of Userhet, 1300 BC. Brown was widely used in Ancient Egypt to represent skin color.A tan terracotta background on a Greek amphora with the figures of Hercules and Apollo. (about 720 BC).And is gladde of a goune of a graye russetAs of a tunicle of Tarse or of trye scarlet.Leonardo da Vinci used sepia ink, from cuttlefish, for his writing and drawing.Jan van Eyck, Portrait de Baudoin de Lannoy. (1435)Self-portrait of Rembrandt. The older Rembrandt became the more brown he used in his paintings.Anthony van Dyck, like Rembrandt, was attached to the pigment called Cassel earth or Cologne earth; it became known as Van Dyck brown.Two Tahitians, by Paul Gauguin (1899).Uniform of the Hitler Youth movement in the 1930s.The brown and orange disks of color are objectively identical, in identical gray surrounds, in this image; their perceived color categories depend on what white they are compared to.Iron oxide is the most common ingredient in brown pigments.Limonite is a form of yellowish iron ore. A clay of limonite rich in iron oxide is the source of raw sienna and burnt sienna.Natural or raw umber pigment is clay rich in iron oxide and manganese.Burnt sienna pigment, from the region around Siena in TuscanyA dark brown iris is most common in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.A light brown iris is most common in North Africa, Eastern Europe, the Americas and West Asia.Brunette is the French term for a woman with brown (brun) hair.Nadeeka Perera, a fashion model from Sri LankaAuburn hair is a reddish brown. This is actress Susan Sarandon.Chestnut color hair also has a reddish tint, but is less red and more brown than auburn hair. This is a German singer Yvonne Catterfeld.An elderly woman from GambiaA man from EgyptMariana Rios, a popular singer from BrazilA man from TibetA young woman from PeruA typical soil profile; dark-brown topsoils, rich with organic matter, above reddish-brown lower layers.A profile of layers of Mollisols, the soil type found in the Great Plains of the U.S., the Pampas in Argentina, and the Russian Steppes.A landscape of loess soil in Datong, Shanxi, China. Loess originated as windblown silt. It is very fertile but erodes easily.A stack of peat cut from the Earth in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Peat is partially decayed vegetative matter.The brown bear is found across Eurasia and North America.The tawny owl. The color tawny takes its name from the old French word tané, which means to tan leather. The same word is the root of suntan and the color tan.The fur of the snowshoe hare is brown in the summer and turns white in winter, as a form of all-season natural camouflage.Camel is an effective color for camouflage in the Sahara desert, and is also a popular color for blankets and winter overcoats.The khaki uniforms of Indian soldiers in British India.General Douglas MacArthur in Khaki on August 2, 1945.Chief petty officers of the U.S. navy in their khaki service uniforms.A Pullman rail car, in traditional brown.A UPS truck in Pullman brown Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proportions. In painting, brown is generally made by adding black to orange. Mixing red-green-blue pigments makes mud color. The brown color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; the color is most often associated with plainness, the rustic and poverty. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color. The first recorded use of brown as a color name in English was in 1000.The Common Germanic adjective *brûnoz, *brûnâ meant both dark colors and a glistening or shining quality, whence burnish. The current meaning developed in Middle English from the 14th century. Words for the color brown around the world often come from foods or beverages; in the eastern Mediterranean, the word for brown often comes from the color of coffee: in Turkish, the word for brown is kahve rengi; in Greek, kafé. In Southeast Asia, the color name often comes from chocolate: coklat in Malay; tsokolate in Filipino. In Japan, the word chairo means the color of tea. Brown has been used in art since prehistoric times. Paintings using umber, a natural clay pigment composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide, have been dated to 40,000 BC. Paintings of brown horses and other animals have been found on the walls of the Lascaux cave dating back about 17,300 years. The female figures in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings have brown skin, painted with umber. Light tan was often used on painted Greek amphorae and vases, either as a background for black figures, or the reverse. The Ancient Greeks and Romans produced a fine reddish-brown ink, of a color called sepia, made from the ink of a variety of cuttlefish. This ink was used by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and other artists during the Renaissance, and by artists up until the present time. In Ancient Rome, brown clothing was associated with the lower classes or barbarians. The term for the plebeians, or urban poor, was 'pullati', which meant literally 'those dressed in brown'. In the Middle Ages brown robes were worn by monks of the Franciscan order, as a sign of their humility and poverty. Each social class was expected to wear a color suitable to their station; and grey and brown were the colors of the poor. Russet was a coarse homespun cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or brown shade. By the statute of 1363, poor English people were required to wear russet. The medieval poem Piers Plowman describes the virtuous Christian: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0} In the Middle Ages dark brown pigments were rarely used in art; painters and book illuminators artists of that period preferred bright, distinct colors such as red, blue and green, rather than dark colors. The umbers were not widely used in Europe before the end of the fifteenth century; The Renaissance painter and writer Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) described them as being rather new in his time. Artists began using far greater use of browns when oil painting arrived in the late fifteenth century. During the Renaissance, artists generally used four different browns; raw umber, the dark brown clay mined from the earth around Umbria, in Italy; raw sienna, a reddish-brown earth mined near Siena, in Tuscany; burnt umber, the Umbrian clay heated until it turned a darker shade, and burnt sienna, heated until it turned a dark reddish brown. In Northern Europe, Jan van Eyck featured rich earth browns in his portraits to set off the brighter colors.