Brown

Brown
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see brown?

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Brown is the color of earth. Brown is strongly associated with the material world and foundations. It evokes qualities like grounded, down to earth, practicality, dependability, solidity, health. It’s thought of as wholesome, a precondition or support of fertility. It’s neutral with a hint of warmth, almost inert – lighter and more casual than black. Despite the fact that it is found year-round, it is strongly associated with autumn. Although it comes in a dizzying array of permutations, encompassing most warm colors with low levels of saturation from near white to nearly black, it is nonetheless perceived as simple. It’s the color of skin.

Classic images
earth
earth architecture
earthenware
skin
wood
coffee
chocolate
nuts
spices
feces

Expressions
brown out
brown nose

Language
auburn, bay, beige, bottle, bronze, brunette, burnt sienna, burnt umber, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, ginger, hazel, khaki, liver, mahogany, nut, nutmeg, oak, ochre, russet, sand, tan, taupe, terra-cotta, toast, umber

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12 Comments

  • jahartford

    27.09.2009 at 09:15 Reply

    organic, woods, dirt, mahogany

  • Kathy Beal

    27.09.2009 at 12:02 Reply

    earthy
    chocolate
    mocha
    worms
    dirt/mud
    mud bath-healing
    cookies
    home

  • jerry grasso

    27.09.2009 at 13:45 Reply

    This color evokes a sense of oldness for me; antique; tobacco.

  • jerry grasso

    27.09.2009 at 13:48 Reply

    This color evokes in me a sense of oldness; antique; a time gone by; tobacco.

  • bamyva

    27.09.2009 at 20:37 Reply

    Brown represents earthy, manifestation, hidden treasure, sum total, raw, counter-part, creation

  • trace

    28.09.2009 at 07:41 Reply

    chocolate, yes!!!, rich earth, loam, adobe, home

  • Mr. Muskrat

    28.09.2009 at 10:46 Reply

    dirt
    manure
    chocolate
    tree bark
    wooden furniture

  • olaf

    28.09.2009 at 11:05 Reply

    chocolate
    misery/depression
    Italians always wear brown shoes with blue suits!
    down/under/below
    low energy

  • Julia

    28.09.2009 at 12:02 Reply

    burnt sienna crayon, rich polished wood, autumn, warm amber beads, new mexican stucco, mud puddles, happiness

  • RJZ

    29.09.2009 at 12:20 Reply

    Earth, richness, warmth, soil, fertile, autumn

  • Margie Willensky

    29.09.2009 at 21:38 Reply

    chocolate chips
    chocolate ice cream
    fall
    winter
    dry
    desert
    dirt
    wood
    bark
    earthy

  • Michelle

    02.10.2009 at 15:58 Reply

    Coffee
    cokes
    Tea
    DIRT
    Summer when you get a TAN !
    Leather
    PineCones
    A Penny
    Pecans
    CHOCOLATE CHIPS 🙂
    Stained and Scored Concrete Floors
    Bark of a tree
    Peanuts
    Leaves Turning Brown
    An Apple Turning Brown from getting old!

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