Shades of Brown & Names, with HEX, RGB Color Codes

This page is about creating a list of 50 plus the major and most common light tints and dark shades of brown. It includes the color names, and Hex and RGB color codes, and also provides a short description of the shades.

When it comes to the meaning of brown, it’s mostly symbolic of stability, growth, balance, and honesty.

Brown is rarely considered to be someone’s favorite color. However, it is fairly popular when it comes to interior design.

Some of the most well-known and popular shades of brown include, chocolate, coffee, wood, brunette, and caramel.

This is near enough, and around about the average shade of brown.

50 Shades of Brown – Names & Color Codes

Chocolate is a dark brown, it represents a common color of chocolate. The first known use of chocolate as a color name was 1737.

Cinnamon represents the light brown color of cinnamon spice, and is often used for flavoring with a variety of foods.

Mocha is a medium to dark shade. It’s named after the chocolate coffee drink of the same name.  

Pecan is a medium brown with a slight red appearance to it. It represents the color of the nuts produced by the pecan tree.

Tawny is a medium to light brown with an orange tone. The color comes from the tawny owl.

Tortilla is a light pale tint of brown. A tortilla is a type of Mexican flatbread. Its origin is Mesoamerica, which covers parts of Central America and Mexico.

Brunette is a strong dark brown shade. It represents the color of the brunette hair color.

Wood comes in various different tones. However, this resembles a medium to light version of wood.

Caramel is basically burned sugar. Its color is a rich medium brown, but caramel can be found in a variety of shades. This represents a common shade.

Walnut is the color of the wood of the walnut tree. It’s generally a dark brown, but it does have lighter tones to it.

The color of peanuts is generally a light brown, representing the common color of the peanut.

Coffee is the color of roasted coffee beans. It’s a medium to dark shade.

Syrup comes in a variety of different tones, ranging from a light golden brown to a dark reddish brown.

This comes from Cedar wood. It can vary from an orange or pinkish color, to various shades of brown.

Gingerbread is a rich and warm brown tone.

Carob is a relatively light brown. It has a fairly strong inclusion of red, which gives it an orange appearance.

Hickory can vary from a light to dark brown. This version is dark brown.

Penny is basically a darker shade of copper.

Umber is a dark brown, like the color of mud. The pigment is made from soil.

Copper can be considered either a light warm brown, or a dark orange.

Taupe is like a hybrid of brown and gray. It could be described as a light pale and warm tint of brown.

This is a darker version with a hint of red.

Ginger is a light brown with a orange to red appearance.

Mode khaki is a sort of light brown. It also has a dirty yellow appearance.

Russet is a dark shade of brown. However, it has a reddish tinge due to having a dominance of red in the RGB color mix.

Nespresso is a dark brown, it’s the shade of the Italian coffee of the same name.

You guess it. This is the medium to dark shade of brown that is mud.

Aloewood is a medium to dark shade. It has a slight orange tinge because it comprises of higher amounts of red.

Tan is considered a light brown. The name tan comes from tannum, or tanbark. The bark from certain trees was used in the process of tanning leather. Records suggest that tan was first used or assigned to the color in 1590.

This represents the approximate yellowish-brown color of the Camels’ fur. Camels are well known for their humps, and their ability to last long periods of time without water. They have evolved to survive in dry desert environments.  

Butter Toast is a light pale tint of brown.

Cashmere is a light brown. It represents the color of the Cashmir’s goat’s wool. Cashmere wool has been used for clothing and other textile purposes for centuries.

Dull brown is a medium shade of brown, and is in fact quite dull.

This color represents an approximate average shade of dark wood.

This represents an average brown shade of various hard woods.

This resembles the color of the almond nut. It’s a medium to light reddish-brown.

Burnt almond has a slightly higher amount of red than the regular almond color.

This is a medium shade of brown. It also resembles a dark gold color.

This is an approximate dark brown shade of café noir.

Khaki brown is a light and pale tint of brown, it’s somewhat of a neutral variation.

Carnal is a light pale reddish-brown.

This represents the neutral brownish color that is dried moss.   

This resembles the medium reddish-brown shade of the Canadian Maple.

This is the approximate dark reddish shade of brown of the chestnut.  

Burnt henna is a medium-dark brown with high amounts of red in its color mix.

Fall harvest is one of the colors of autumn, and it’s a light tint of brown.

This version of chamomile is a very light tint of brown. Chamomile is often an off-white-yellow color, named after the chamomile daisy flower. However, this represents the color of chamomile tea.

This is the approximate shade of the web color; red-brown. It has a high balance of red in its RGB mixture.

Wenge is a type of hardwood. It’s a pale reddish brown shade.

This resembles the approximate brownish shade of cocoa beans. Despite being called a bean, it’s actually a seed.

Rosy brown can be classed as either red or brown. It’s commonly used to describe a hair color.

This is around about and approximately the medium red-brown shade of burnt umber. It’s created when raw umber has been heated to a sufficient degree.

This is the approximate brownish shade of dark sand.

The color nude is often considered a light tint or shade of brown.