What color does brown and white make?
Equal parts brown and white produce tan (#d99891 (Dark Salmon)). The blend is computed in the Oklab color space, so the steps between the two colors look evenly spaced to your eye rather than to the raw channel math.
#d99891 - HEX
- #d99891
- RGB
- rgb(217, 152, 145)
- HSL
- hsl(6, 49%, 71%)
- CMYK
- cmyk(0%, 30%, 33%, 15%)
color-mix(in oklab, #a52a2a 50%, #ffffff) Brown to White: every ratio
How much of each color you use moves the answer along the blend path. The perceptual midpoint is the 50/50 row; the others show what a 3:1 ratio does in either direction.
Lighter and darker versions
Tint the mix toward white or shade it toward black and you get a small palette that all clearly belongs to the same family:
#e4b1ac Tint #eecbc7 50/50 mix #d99891 Shade #533835 Darker #936661 Paint vs. screen: why the medium matters
Brown is really dark orange. Add white and you get tan — the tint of orange — which is why tan, beige, and brown all belong to the same family no matter how different they look side by side.
About these two colors
Brown #a52a2a — A dark, desaturated orange — mix orange with black or its opposite, blue.
White #ffffff — All visible wavelengths of light at once; in paint, the tint that lightens every mix.
Want to blend these with different colors entirely? Open the full color mixer, or convert #d99891 to RGB, HSL or CMYK.
Related mixes
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Frequently asked questions
Does brown and white make tan?
Yes — equal parts give tan, around #d99891. The exact shade depends on your ratio: brown-heavy mixes lean toward #c1645d and white-heavy mixes toward #eecbc7.
What is the HEX code for brown and white mixed?
A 50/50 perceptual mix is #d99891 (Dark Salmon). If you need it in CSS, the mixer above generates a ready-to-paste color-mix() snippet: color-mix(in oklab, #a52a2a 50%, #ffffff).
What does brown and white make in paint vs. on a screen?
Brown is really dark orange. Add white and you get tan — the tint of orange — which is why tan, beige, and brown all belong to the same family no matter how different they look side by side.
How do I make the tan mix lighter or darker?
Mix the result with white to tint it — 50% white gives about #eecbc7 — or with black to shade it, where 50% black gives about #533835. The strip above shows the full run from lighter to darker.