For other senses of this word, see brown (disambiguation).

The color brown is produced by mixing complementary colors, such as red and green, orange and blue, or yellow and purple. Different qualities of brown can be produced by mixing different complements; naturally, a brown produced by mixing yellow and purple will be lighter than one produced by mixing blue and orange. Brown can therefore be an extremely versatile color in art, as different qualities of brown can be produced to harmonize with different color schemes. Additionally, some perceive that all the various skin colors of humans are different shades of brown.

Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions

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• In the billiard game of Snooker the 4-point snooker ball is brown.
• Brown is the color of many soils, animals, tree barks, and many other things in nature. The color brown is also commonly associated with excrement.
• Pullman Brown is the color of the United Parcel Service (UPS) delivery company with their trademark brown trucks and uniforms. UPS Brown (which is often incorrectly claimed to be Pantone 0607298, which is in reality not a valid pantone number) is a trademark of UPS. In its advertising, UPS refers to itself as "Brown" ("What can Brown do for you?").
• In the 1930's to the end of the second World War Brown was the color of the German Nazi party. Members of the Sturmabteilung wore brown uniforms and were known as the brownshirts.
• Brown is often used as a color of athletic jerseys and logos. Perhaps the most notable are the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. The team got its name from its founder and long-time coach, Paul Brown. The St. Louis Browns are a former Major League Baseball team, now known as the Baltimore Orioles. For about 25 years, the San Diego Padres had brown as a primary team color. Athletes at the University of Wyoming wear brown and old gold.
• The school colors of Brown University are white, cardinal red, and seal brown.
• To brown food is to oxidise the outside by heating, as under a broiler or in a frying pan, until it turns brown.
• Slang: A highly visible traffic infraction that is not caught. (e.g. A U-turn over a double yellow line on a busy street.)
• Brown is also commonly used to refer to people of Hispanic, Filipino or South Asian ethnicity, and sometimes for people of African or mixed extraction.

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