Brown, when used as a general term, is a color which is a dark yellow, orange, or red, of low luminance relative to lighter or white colored objects."Some Experiments on Color", Nature 111, 1871, in Some amber and yellow colors of lower saturation are called light browns.BrownThe color brown is displayed at right. Another name for this color (rarely used) is dark orange.Brown paint can be produced by adding black or their complementary colors to rose, red, orange, or yellow colored pain