Purple Brown #673A3F

About this color

#673A3F is a dark, muted red. In OKLCH its lightness is 41%, its chroma 0.064 and its hue 13°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Purple Brown. White text reads best on it, at 9.31:1.

Colors that go with Purple Brown

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

Color palettes with Purple Brown

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

• Moonpool Water
• Champagne and Peony
• Rosewater and Blush
• Papaya and Lemonade
• Teddy Meadow
• Birch and Moss
• Chrome and Jukebox
• Canopy Grove

Similar named colors

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

• Brownish Purple #76424E ΔE 0.042
• Chestnut #742802 ΔE 0.069
• Charcoal Grey #3C4142 ΔE 0.078
• Mud Brown #60460F ΔE 0.080
• Red Brown #8B2E16 ΔE 0.082
• Rust Brown #8B3103 ΔE 0.088
• Wine Red #7B0323 ΔE 0.089
• Reddy Brown #6E1005 ΔE 0.091

More about Purple Brown

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Purple 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.

• 3 parts red
• 2 parts pink
• 1 part black

Recipe result: #693A41, a difference of ΔE 0.006 from Purple Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Purple 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 Purple 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 800.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F9F4F4

   oklch(97.1% 0.005 17.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F1E7E8

   oklch(93.6% 0.011 10.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E6D4D5

   oklch(88.5% 0.02 13.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D8B7BA

   oklch(80.9% 0.038 11.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #C39296

   oklch(70.8% 0.06 13.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B3767C

   oklch(63.1% 0.077 13.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #9E5E65

   oklch(55.6% 0.084 13.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #874E54

   oklch(49.2% 0.077 13.5)

9. Step 800

   800 (this color)

   #673A3F

   oklch(40.5% 0.064 13.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #59363A

    oklch(37.6% 0.051 12.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #342022

    oklch(27% 0.031 12.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Purple 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.