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[edit] Browns offered

The list of "browns" offered is terrible, most are not brown at all!!! (with purples, whites and such) and the colour shown in they key does not matches the ones in the article and some redirect here (like chocolate brown, so one cannot find its Hex colour and such) There's a total lack of yellowish browns, greenish browns and such!!! (Just take some paint and try yourself, those browns exsit). THIS IS THE WORST COLOUR ARTICLE IN HERE!!!! IT NEEDS URGENT HELPUndead Herle King (talk) 08:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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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

[edit] List of terms associated with the color brown by superstitious people

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)

"Brown is also the "most trusted color in America." (According to the United Parcel Service)." isn't that sentence just blatant advertising? 84.150.36.247 16:12, 30 July 2007 (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)

And the PS3 stuff VTNC 01:15, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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Deleted the kind of crude racial stuff one would expect an article like this to be a magnet for, if this is the level of debate how can we improve this article? SqueakBox 23:43, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hazel

Which color is the closest to the eye color hazel?

Kiwi. --nlitement [talk] 00:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I thought brown was just all the primary colors mixed together

with paint, you get brown by mixing yellow, blue and red together —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.38.17.124 (talk) 20:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brown in culture

Shouldn't those items be listed on Brown (disambiguation)?... --76.105.227.156 (talk) 06:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Only those which can conceivably, on their own, be referred to as just plain "Brown" (as opposed to things that are known to be brown, or that include the word brown in their names). And even then, that doesn't necessarily mean they should be removed here. \sim Lenoxus " * " 21:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)