Dull Brown #876E4B

About this color

#876E4B is a medium-dark, muted brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 55%, its chroma 0.059 and its hue 75°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dull Brown. White text reads best on it, at 4.81:1.

Colors that go with Dull Brown

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

Color palettes with Dull Brown

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

• Kyoto Steam
• Chalk Page
• Cotton and Alabaster
• Terrazzo Table
• Linen Gallery
• Marble Lookbook
• Clay Workshop
• Chrome and Jukebox

Similar named colors

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

• Dirt #8A6E45 ΔE 0.009
• Grey Brown #7F7053 ΔE 0.015
• Dark Taupe #7F684E ΔE 0.024
• Dirt Brown #836539 ΔE 0.030
• Cocoa #875F42 ΔE 0.040
• Mocha #9D7651 ΔE 0.045
• Earth #A2653E ΔE 0.049
• Sepia #985E2B ΔE 0.050

More about Dull Brown

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Dull 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.

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

Recipe result: #8A6E48, a difference of ΔE 0.005 from Dull Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dull 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 Dull 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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F7F5F3

   oklch(97.1% 0.003 67.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDE9E4

   oklch(93.6% 0.008 73.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DFD8CF

   oklch(88.5% 0.014 74.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CBBFAE

   oklch(81% 0.027 76.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B09D84

   oklch(70.6% 0.042 74.6)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9D8565

   oklch(63.1% 0.054 74.5)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #876E4B

   oklch(55.4% 0.059 75.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #735C3D

   oklch(49% 0.054 74.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5E4C32

   oklch(42.8% 0.046 76.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4D3F2C

    oklch(37.7% 0.036 74.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2D251A

    oklch(27% 0.023 75.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dull 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.