How to Make Brown
Brown is a dark, muted colour you build by combining complementary colours — they cancel each other into an earthy tone.
To make Brown, mix Red + Green. Adjust the ratio below, or open it in the live mixer to fine-tune and match a real paint.
Red and green are opposites on the colour wheel, so they neutralise into brown. The classic, reliable mix.
Open in mixer →All three primaries together make brown. Lead with red, add yellow, then a little blue to deepen it.
Open in mixer →Orange plus its complement blue also lands on brown — vary the blue for warmer or cooler browns.
Open in mixer →Our color tools run on our own catalogue of 26,000+ real paint colors across 16 brands — Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, Behr, Dulux, RAL and more — with the color math (HSL and CIELAB matching) computed in-house, not scraped from summaries. Every color you pick maps to a real, buyable paint with its code, so what you see here you can actually take to the store. We review and update these tools and their data regularly.
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What colours make Brown?+
Brown is a dark, muted colour you build by combining complementary colours — they cancel each other into an earthy tone. Red and green are opposites on the colour wheel, so they neutralise into brown. The classic, reliable mix.
Can you mix brown paint?+
Yes — brown mixes from the colours above. Open any recipe in the mixer to fine-tune the ratio, then match the result to a real, buyable paint across 16 brands.
What two colours make Brown?+
Mix red and green to make brown.