Brown

RAL 8000

Green Brown

RAL 8000 Green Brown is a warm, olive-brown that opens the RAL brown series with a shade reminiscent of dried savanna grass and sun-baked earth. This natural, unassuming color is widely used in military equipment, safari-themed commercial design, and earth-toned architectural coatings. Green Brown provides effective visual integration with arid and semi-arid landscapes and is specified in several European military coating standards for desert and grassland camouflage applications.

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Technical Reference

Color Reference

Hex#887142
RGBrgb(136, 113, 66)
HSLhsl(40°, 35%, 40%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 17%, 51%, 47%)
Color Analysis
RGB Composition
R
136
G
113
B
66
Temperature
WarmCool
Contrast Accessibility
White text
4.7:1Pass
Black text
4.5:1Fail

WCAG 2.1 AA requires 4.5:1 contrast for normal text. Results show this color as a background.

Spectrum & Perceptual Position

Hue Spectrum
60°120°180°240°300°360°
CIELAB a*b* Chromaticity
-4004080-4004080a* (Green ← → Red)b* (Blue ← → Yellow)
L* (Lightness)49
a* (Green-Red)3
b* (Blue-Yellow)29
L* (LCh)49
C* (Chroma)29
h° (Hue)85°

CIELAB is a perceptually uniform color space. Euclidean distance between two colors in this diagram closely matches human visual difference. The dot size shows your selected color; slightly larger dots are the nearest perceptual neighbors.

Color Harmonies

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Reference + opposite hue with tonal variations

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Pairwise Contrast Ratios
1.6:1
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1.7:1
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2.6:1
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2.6:1

Contrast ratios follow WCAG 2.1 guidelines. Green (≥4.5:1) passes AA for normal text. Amber (≥3:1) passes for large text only. Grey indicates low contrast.

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