Brown

Brown is a color produced by mixing small intensities of red and green, orange and blue, or yellow and purple pigment. Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast.

Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions

• Brown is the color of the snooker ball which has a 4-point value.
• Brown is the color of many soils.
• Mixed-race persons were classified as brown, or colored, in apartheid-era South Africa.
• Brown can refer to people of Latino, South Asian, or Middle Eastern descent.
• Pullman Brown is the color of the United Parcel Service (UPS) delivery company with their trademark brown trucks and uniforms. UPS Brown (Pantone code 0607298) is a trademark of UPS.
• Brown symbolizes Nazism in Germany. The Sturmabteilung wore brown uniforms and was known as the brownshirts.
• Brown University is an undergraduate college and research university located in Providence, Rhode Island.