National Football League · American Football Conference · Northern Division

Browns colors

The Cleveland Browns play in Cleveland, Ohio, and use 2 registered colours: Brown and Orange. Every value below is listed in hexadecimal, red green blue, hue saturation lightness, and approximate cyan magenta yellow black, with contrast results computed from the values themselves.

These values are not yet verified

The colour values on this page are illustrative placeholders used while the site is being built. Each one must be traced to the team's own published brand assets and dated before it is presented as fact — see the method page. Do not use these figures for print or production yet.

Colour values

2 colours

Each swatch is rendered in CSS from the numeric value, not from a logo image. The figure on each chip is its contrast against white.

16.08:1

Brown

primary

Hex#311D00

Red green blue49, 29, 0

Hue saturation lightness36, 100%, 10%

Cyan magenta yellow black0, 41, 100, 81

3.56:1

Orange

secondary

Hex#FF3C00

Red green blue255, 60, 0

Hue saturation lightness14, 100%, 50%

Cyan magenta yellow black0, 76, 100, 0

Which pairings carry text

4 pairings measured

Computed with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines relative luminance formula. These decide whether a player name, a score or body copy stays readable.

Brown on Orange

4.52:1 AA

Orange on Brown

4.52:1 AA

Brown on White

16.08:1 AAA

Orange on White

3.56:1 Large text only

Strongest and weakest combination

The highest-contrast pairing available from this palette is Brown on White at 16.08:1 — use it for anything carrying text.

The weakest is Orange on White at 3.56:1, which is usable only for large display type.

Copy-ready values

:root {
  /* Cleveland Browns */
  --browns-brown: #311D00;
  --browns-orange: #FF3C00;
}

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About the Cleveland Browns palette

The Cleveland Browns were founded in 1946 and compete in the American Football Conference of the National Football League. Their primary colour, Brown #311D00, is a very dark, desaturated yellow.

The National Football League divides its thirty-two teams between two conferences, and uniform colour is regulated more tightly here than in any other major league: a team must register its colours with the league, and opposing teams are required to wear contrasting jerseys so that broadcast audiences can tell them apart.

Within the Northern Division the Browns face Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers. Those are the matchups where two palettes appear in one frame, so they are the pairings most worth checking for a clash.