Brown Grey #8D8468

About this color

#8D8468 is a medium-dark, muted yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 61%, its chroma 0.042 and its hue 92°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Brown Grey. Black text reads best on it, at 5.63:1.

Colors that go with Brown Grey

Matches found by rotating Brown Grey around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Brown Grey

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Brown Grey, closest first.

• Champagne and Lace
• Brick Siesta
• Gramophone and Heirloom
• Plum Blue Hour
• Cherry Breeze
• Gyokuro Room
• Raw Pottery
• Daguerreotype Tearoom

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Brown Grey, with their ΔE distance.

• Puce #A57E52 ΔE 0.043
• Medium Grey #7D7F7C ΔE 0.043
• Warm Grey #978A84 ΔE 0.043
• Mocha #9D7651 ΔE 0.044
• Gray #808080 ΔE 0.044
• Green Grey #77926F ΔE 0.046
• Coffee #A6814C ΔE 0.048
• Reddish Grey #997570 ΔE 0.050

More about Brown Grey

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Brown Grey

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts gray
• 1 part orange
• 1 part brown

Recipe result: #8D8568, a difference of ΔE 0.002 from Brown Grey. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Brown Grey in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Brown Grey

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 500.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F6F5F3

   oklch(97% 0.003 84.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EBEAE5

   oklch(93.6% 0.007 97.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DCD9D1

   oklch(88.5% 0.011 89.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C5C0B2

   oklch(80.8% 0.02 90.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A8A08A

   oklch(70.6% 0.032 90.4)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #8D8468

   oklch(61.4% 0.042 92.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #7D7355

   oklch(55.7% 0.045 91.8)

8. Step 700

   700

   #696045

   oklch(49% 0.042 91.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #564F39

   oklch(42.8% 0.035 92.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #474131

    oklch(37.6% 0.027 89.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #29261D

    oklch(26.9% 0.017 91.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Brown Grey with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.