Deep Brown #410200

About this color

#410200 is a very dark, moderately saturated red. In OKLCH its lightness is 24%, its chroma 0.094 and its hue 30°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Deep Brown. White text reads best on it, at 17.02:1.

Colors that go with Deep Brown

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

Color palettes with Deep Brown

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

• Sagebrush Road
• Velvet Carols
• Marble Recess
• Spruce Blanket
• Canyon Caravan
• Puddle Treasure
• Gingerbread Fireside
• Sagebrush Heat

Similar named colors

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

• Dark Maroon #3C0008 ΔE 0.021
• Mahogany #4A0100 ΔE 0.022
• Chocolate Brown #411900 ΔE 0.047
• Dark Brown #341C02 ΔE 0.060
• Dark Plum #3F012C ΔE 0.078
• Aubergine #3D0734 ΔE 0.090
• Burgundy #610023 ΔE 0.092
• Eggplant #380835 ΔE 0.095

More about Deep Brown

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Deep Brown

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.

• 2 parts red
• 1 part black

Recipe result: #382427, a difference of ΔE 0.081 from Deep Brown. Deep Brown is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made red paint and adjust it.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Deep Brown 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 Deep Brown

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 950.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FFF2F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.014 28)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FFE2DD

   oklch(93.5% 0.033 29.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFCBC1

   oklch(88.5% 0.061 30.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FFA696

   oklch(80.9% 0.109 30.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #FC6D59

   oklch(70.7% 0.179 30.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #F53521

   oklch(63.1% 0.229 30.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D61500

   oklch(55.6% 0.221 30.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B51000

   oklch(49% 0.195 30.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #960B00

   oklch(42.7% 0.17 30.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #7E0800

    oklch(37.6% 0.149 30.4)

11. Step 950

    950 (this color)

    #410200

    oklch(23.8% 0.094 30.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Deep Brown 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.