#8B4513, the shade this page opens on: red at 139, green at 69 and blue at 19. By hue it is a dark orange, and it sends about 9.8 percent of the light of full white. The name comes from a saddle's stained leather.
The page's own dimmer, not your device's brightness.
Brown color full screen in one press: Go full screen fills the display with saddle brown, #8B4513. Seven more browns sit above the button. In a dark room a full-screen brown can look orange; the notes say why.
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A brown color screen in one press
1. Keep saddle brown, or for a light brown screen pick peru, tan or burlywood above the button.
2. Press Go full screen: the display fills with that brown.
3. If it looks orange, switch a lamp on or leave full screen: beside something brighter it is brown again.
Why it opens on saddle brown
The color CSS names brown, #A52A2A, has the hue of pure red. Older lists call it red-brown, and it is the second chip here. Saddle brown is a dark orange, the hue the word usually means. Copy hex copies the code on show.
Questions and answers
What is the hex code for a brown screen?
#A52A2A is the color CSS names brown, a red-brown. This page opens on saddle brown, #8B4513, and six more named browns sit above the button, among them sienna, #A0522D, and tan, #D2B48C.
Why does a brown screen look orange?
Brown is a dark orange, and the eye calls it brown only when something brighter is in view. Full screen in a dark room, nothing brighter is, so the same light can pass for a dim orange.
How does a screen make brown?
From red and green light, mostly at low strength, with more red than green and blue usually the lowest. Saddle brown is red at 139, green at 69 and blue at 19, each out of 255.
Is a tan screen a brown screen?
Yes, a pale one. Tan, #D2B48C, gives about 48 percent of white's light, as much as the color CSS names orange. It reads as brown because blue lit at 140 grays the orange.
All 16 shades and notes
Browns, dark to pale 8
Saddle brown#8B4513, the shade this page opens on: red at 139, green at 69 and blue at 19. By hue it is a dark orange, and it sends about 9.8 percent of the light of full white. The name comes from a saddle's stained leather.
Red-brown#A52A2A is what CSS calls brown, and it sits at the red end of the family: hue 0, the same as pure red, at 59 percent saturation. Older color lists name it red-brown. It matches saddle brown for light, at about 9.8 percent.
Sienna#A0522D: a reddish brown at hue 19, between red-brown and saddle brown, at about 14 percent of white's light. The name is that of an earth pigment once dug near Siena, in Tuscany.
Chocolate brown#D2691E: the same hue as saddle brown, 25 degrees, with about two and a half times the light, close to 24 percent of white's. The most vivid shade on the page, an orange-brown.
Peru#CD853F: a lighter brown at hue 30, the middle of the orange range, with blue lit at 63 of 255. About 30 percent of white's light. Lighter than chocolate brown and less vivid.
Show all 16 shades and notes (11 more)
Browns, dark to pale, continued
Tan#D2B48C: red at 210, green at 180 and blue at 140, three channels close together. A pale, grayish brown at about 48 percent of white's light, with a saturation of 44 percent.
Burlywood#DEB887: tan's hue, 34 degrees, with a little more color and a little more light, about 52 percent of white's. The brightest shade on the page.
Rosy brown#BC8F8F: red at 188 with green and blue level at 143. Its hue is 0, like red-brown, but its saturation is only 25 percent, so it is nearer to a warm gray than any other shade here. About 32 percent of white's light.
What brown is on a screen 4
Brown is orange with less lightChocolate brown and saddle brown share one hue, 25 degrees. Pick chocolate brown and slide Dimmer to 40 percent: the code under the field reads #8B4310, within three levels of saddle brown's #8B4513. Brown is the name a dark orange goes by.
Full screen in a dark room, brown can look orangeThe eye calls a color brown only when something brighter is in view. With the room dark and saddle brown from edge to edge, nothing brighter is, and the same light can read as a dim orange.
A white window brings the brown backLeave full screen and put the white screen page in a window beside this one, or switch a lamp on. Next to something brighter the field reads as brown again, though the code under it has not changed.
Tan gives as much light as orangeTan comes to about 48 percent of white's light, the same figure as the color CSS names orange, #FFA500. It is brown by grayness, not by darkness: with blue lit at 140 the orange is muted until it reads as brown.
Brown and its names 4
The brown CSS names is a dark red#A52A2A has hue 0, where saddle brown has 25 and peru 30. Older color lists call it red-brown and keep plain brown for a dark orange. That is why this page opens on saddle brown and lists the CSS color under its older name.
Red browns and orange brownsThe word brown covers dark or grayed reds, oranges and yellows alike. On this page red-brown and rosy brown sit at hue 0, sienna at 19, saddle brown and chocolate brown at 25, peru at 30, and tan and burlywood at 34.
Two browns with one light figureSaddle brown and red-brown both come to about 9.8 percent of white's light, though one is a dark orange and the other a dark red. Switch between the two chips: the light figure holds while the hue moves from orange to red.
Why a brown is called peruThe name is short for Peruvian brown, first recorded as a color name in English in 1924. It was cut to peru for a list of color names made for computer displays, the list CSS later took its names from.
How this list was compiled: Shades and notes chosen and written for this page. Every hex value is a CSS named color, taken from the table of named colors at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/named-color, read 2026-10-03; the hue and saturation quoted are worked out from the hex. The share of light printed for each shade is its relative luminance (0.2126 R + 0.7152 G + 0.0722 B on linear values, pure white as 100), worked out from the formulas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB, read 2026-10-03. That brown is a dark orange, that the word covers red, orange and yellow hues at low luminance or saturation, that brown is seen as brown only beside a brighter color, and that sienna is an earth once mined near Siena, in Tuscany, is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown. That the web color named brown is the one traditionally called red-brown and that plain brown is traditionally a dark orange, that a screen makes brown from red and green light at low strength, that tan is a pale brown, what saddle brown is named for and where the name peru comes from, is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_brown. That these eight are listed among the browns, and that the long list of color names began as a list made for computer displays, is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors. All three read 2026-10-03. Wikipedia text is under CC BY-SA 4.0 and is restated here in this site's own words. A color on a screen is not a match for paint, print or another screen, and nothing here is a measurement. Licence: own work