937 colors

Brown

Browns read heavier on a large wall than they do on a chip, so sample generously before committing.

A searchable brown shade card and colour chart: every brown paint color from 6 manufacturers side by side, with hex codes, LRV and cross-brand matches.

  • 6brands
  • 3–23LRV range
  • 937warm
  • 0cool

Every brown Lightest to darkest - tap a color to open it

Common questions

How many brown paint colors are there?

This page lists 937 brown paint colors from 6 brands - Benjamin Moore (340), Sherwin-Williams (177), PPG Paints (154), Behr (126), Berger Paints (107), Shalimar Paints (33) - each with its manufacturer code, hex value, RGB, LRV and undertone.

What is the paint code for a brown color on this page?

Every swatch shows its manufacturer code beneath the name - Benjamin Moore Graham Cracker is 1113, for example. That code is what a store mixes from, and it is unique to its brand: the same code at another manufacturer is an unrelated color.

Which brown paint colors suit a dark room?

The ones with a high Light Reflectance Value, which is the percentage of light a color reflects. These brown colors run from LRV 2.8 (Sherwin-Williams Polished Mahogany) to LRV 22.9 (Benjamin Moore Graham Cracker); above 60 keeps a room bright, below 30 reads as a deep color and absorbs the light a dark room has left.

Are these brown paint colors warm or cool?

Both - 937 of the 937 are warm and 0 are cool, with the rest neutral. The label is computed from each color's hue angle and chroma in CIE L*a*b*, not from its name, so it can be compared across brands. Warm brown suits north-facing rooms, cool brown suits rooms that already get strong afternoon light.

How do you compare brown paint colors from different brands?

Open any swatch on this page. It lists the closest color in each of the other brands with a ΔE00 figure - perceived color difference, where under 1.0 is indistinguishable side by side and above 4 is visible across a room. The comparison covers published color values only, not sheen, base or coverage.

Is this a brown paint shade card?

It is the same information, online and searchable. Where a printed shade card or colour chart gives you a chip and a name, every brown swatch here carries its code, hex, RGB, LRV and undertone, and its nearest equivalents at the other brands in the catalog - with nothing to download and no fan deck to order.