Brown

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For other senses of this word, see Brown (disambiguation).

The color brown is a dark red or orange of very low intensity.

[edit] Brown

At right is displayed the color brown.

Brown paint can be produced by adding black or their complementary colors to either red or orange paint. As a color of low intensity it is a tertiary color in the original technical sense: a mix of the three subtractive primary colors is brown if the cyan content is low. Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast: red or orange objects are still perceived as such if the general illumination level is low, despite reflecting the same amount of red or orange light as a brown object would in normal lighting conditions.

[edit] Brown in Human Culture

Computer Games

• In Halo 2, if you call someone "Brown" it usually means they're are a bad player. Example: "That kid was brown."

Cooking

• To brown food is to oxidise the outside by heating, as under a broiler or in a frying pan, until it turns brown.

Delivery Services

• Pullman Brown is the color of the United Parcel Service (UPS) delivery company with their trademark brown trucks and uniforms. UPS Brown (which is often incorrectly claimed to be Pantone 0607298, which is in reality not a valid pantone number) is a trademark of UPS. In its advertising, UPS refers to itself as "Brown" ("What can Brown do for you?").

Games

• In the billiard game of Snooker the 4-point snooker ball is brown.
• To "pull a Brown" is to play poker and believe in bad luck, much like the famed Matthew Brown did when he was the Texas Hold 'Em Aficionado Supremo in El Paso, TX.

Ethnography

• Brown is also sometimes used to refer to people of the South^[1].
• Brown or Bronze may be used by mestizo Hispanics to describe themselves.
• Austronesians in the 20th Century were often referred to as the Malayan race or brown race.

Holidays

• The colors brown and orange represent the United States holiday of Thanksgiving.

Nature

• Brown is the color of many soils, animals, tree barks, feces and many other things in nature.

Politics

• In the 1920s to 1940s, the German Nazi paramilitary organization the Sturmabteilung (SA) wore brown uniforms and were known as the brownshirts. It was often said of members of the SA that they were like a beefsteak--"brown on the outside, and red on the inside"--because many of them were former Communists. The color brown was used to represent the Nazi vote on maps of electoral districts in Germany. If someone voted for the Nazis, they were said to be "voting brown".

Sports

• Brown is often used as a color of athletic jerseys and logos. Perhaps the most notable are the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. The team got its name from its founder and long-time coach, Paul Brown. The St. Louis Browns are a former Major League Baseball team, now known as the Baltimore Orioles. For about 25 years, the San Diego Padres had brown as a primary team color.

[edit] Brown pigments

• Bistre
• Sienna (burnt and raw)
• Umber (burnt and raw)

[edit] See also

• List of colors

[edit] External links

• All About Brown

[edit] References

1. ^ Ahmed, Tanzila. Alternet mix the message. Desi Power Online. 2006. September 9, 2006. <http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/33078/>.