color brown http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017244 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/371254008 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C48332 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47071 A composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proportions. In painting, brown is generally made by adding black to orange. Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation. The brown color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; it is most often associated with plainness, the rustic, and poverty. browns