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Is it just my monitor, or does that "brown" look like a lighter version of maroon rather than actual brown? --Delirium 00:23 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

It's not just your monitor. On my screen it looks very reddish. --Robert Merkel 00:28 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I've changed it to [170, 85, 0], which was already mentioned in the article as the colour that was supposedly in the box. Should look brown now. כסיף Cyp 00:42 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

looks too orange to me, but we'll be on this all night if we let ourselves be. XD

Contents 1 List of terms associated with the color brown 2 elaborate please 3 UPS Brown 4 Habit of vandals 5 feces?

[edit] List of terms associated with the color brown

• ambition
• approachable
• comfort
• credibility
• earth
• endurance
• feces
• fertility
• generosity
• god
• growth
• harmony
• hearth
• home
• humility
• informality
• maturity
• neutrality
• nurturing
• organization
• outdoors
• passiveness
• productivity
• quality
• relaxation
• reliability
• sensuality
• simplicity
• solidity
• stability
• strength

At least some of these should be merged into this article. anthony (see warning) 22:35, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] elaborate please

Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast.

what does that mean? - Omegatron 18:13, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. It may simply be my eyes, but brown is a brilliant color in its own right, and I can easily perceive it in the absence of all other contrasting colors. - Gilgamesh 07:11, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I thought it had to do with the fact that brown is just dark orange. I agree that this assertion should be expanded, however. - Vague | Rant 01:43, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)

Brown isn't in the spectrum! Where did it go? - Zorgoron Rajex XL5

It's in colour space :o)--MWAK 3 July 2005 07:15 (UTC)

If you were in a environment with an all-over low light intensity ("dark"), you would experience exactly the same colours (not coloured objects!) that you would judge to be brown in a high intensity environment, as red or orange. So: no contrast, no brown. Then how can there be a brilliant brown? Answer: "brilliant" browns have a high intensity but a low saturation. A virtual color contrast suffices. The "eye" makes a little calculation: how would a saturated orange or red look like in the same lighting conditions? If no comparison can be made however, because the only light source is the brown object itself (thus making it impossible to decide whether it's a "generally" brown object in bright light, or a red or orange object in the dark), it will be perceived as orange or red.

--MWAK 2 July 2005 09:41 (UTC)

This really ought to be elaborated on in the entry, it's a fascinating thing which few people are aware of. --Oolong 11:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

OK.--MWAK 11:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Brown is also used to describe pakistani or indian people- because of skin color. This is not well established in society, but a term that is finding growing usage. So next time you see a brown person, tell him he is brown and to have a truly brown day!

[edit] UPS Brown

"Pantone 0607298" is some mixed-up journalist somewhere. It's just not a valid Pantone number, it has too many digits. I do think I know where the confusion came from though, http://www.cidoc.net/000230.html ... "The colours are brown (UPS 0607298) and gold (Pantone 123). In addition, UPS makes use of 31 other colours."

Someone saw that and crossed it up to become the totally incorrect but seeminly common fabrication of Pantone 0607298, often claimed to be UPS brown. Gigs 14:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Habit of vandals

According to this article's history, how common has it been to vandalize this article by putting info about either the surname Brown or people with the surname Brown in this article?? Georgia guy 16:04, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] feces?

I've seen feces called brown in a number of places. I've heard this on the street as well. Is this an appropriate addition?

Unpleasant as it may be, I think it is appropriate. It's factual, informative, and as you witnessed, in common usage. I can't think of a good reason for it *not* to be mentioned.Actually,no.I was just joking.Feces is evil. --Navstar 04:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Appropriate as it may be, I think it is unpleasant. It's false, newsless, and as you witnessed, in uncommon usage. I can't think of a good reason for it *to* be mentioned. -Shikyo3