Brown

The color brown indicates a strongly darkened yellow, orange or red

Color theory

Colorimetric a color is regarded as brown when it is created by mixing a warm color (yellow, orange, red ) with black. Brown is a broken color. The notes referred to as brown occupy a relatively large area in color spaces.

Particularly bright browns called natural color.

The color group of browns thus includes shades between neutral yellow and maroon with a brightness less than 50%. The saturation of the red- brown shades is about 30 %, but at about 70% for yellow tones. So yellows beat faster in a perceived as independent shade, while broken reds are still perceived as a dark red for the same amount of black. Brown can be mixing to produce a wide range of colorants. As long as the proportion of warm color means predominates, it will be brown tones; Tertiary colors with a predominant green and cold colors belong to the olive.

Pigments, colorants

Known brown colorants are Vandyke brown, sepia, umber, ocher and Venezianischbraun.

Psyche

The natural color Brown associated sun brown ( browning of the skin) and is in Western cultures as positive. At the beginning of the 20th century but was tanned skin as rural and the ideal of beauty called " paleness ".

In everyday language we speak, for example, from light brown, dark brown, deep brown - or use other words to describe the shade precisely: teerbraun, earth brown, maroon ( chestnut brown ), chocolate brown, coffee brown and many more.

In the fashion is referred to as earth tones brown nuances. Analogously, this applies the methods of color theory of types, which establish a connection between a person's character and their favorite colors. So the color is brown with respect to the Earth humans.

Associations

  • Earth - clay - nature
  • Dirt - dirt - feces - Humiliation
  • Comfort - security - peace - heat
  • Tradition - earthiness
  • Rust
  • Skin color: tan, African, African American, Aboriginal, Eskimo, Indian, Native American
  • Hair color: brunette, red-brown
  • Wood, bark, cork
  • Walnut, chestnut, chestnut
  • Roasting substances: coffee, cocoa, chocolate
  • Beer: Brown beer, malt beer, wheat beer Dark

Policy

The political symbol color was brown color characteristic of the Nazis. It goes back to the uniform shirts of the SA ( Brown Shirts ). The Brown House was from 1930 to 1945 in Munich, the party headquarters of the NSDAP. In this tradition, the color is now for the political spectrum of neo-Nazism, fascism, right-wing, right-wing populism.

Change in meaning

Historically, with "brown" until the 18th century into (also ) refers to the blue - violet to black color of the deepest twilight - cf. the Hymn light of the sun is down, | Brown Night falls strongly in the saying or someone brown and blue to beat.

Heraldry

In heraldry Brown is not one of the actual heraldic colors, it was assigned to the heraldic tinctures later.

Martial Arts

In many martial arts - such as Jiu Jitsu, Judo and Karate - a belt (Japanese Obi ) as part of the martial arts sport (Japanese Keikogi ) is worn. The brown belt represents the knowledge of the Budoka and is the top or highest student grades (Japanese Kyu degrees) reserved.

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