French BistreIt is a grayish orange color having an approximate luminance of 48%. It has a hue value of 34° indicating that this is a warm color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Raw Umber, Coyote Brown, Shadow, Gold Fusion, Liver Chestnut, Café Au Lait, French Beige, Tuscan Tan, Metallic Sunburst and Spanish Bistre. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color French Bistre to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (133, 109, 77)
#856d4d
hsl (34.3, 26.7%, 41.2%)
hsv (34.3, 42.1%, 52.2%)
lab (47.6, 4.8, 21.4)
xyz (16.5, 16.5, 9.3)
The rgb, hexadecimal and hsl values can be used in webpages to define the colors of different objects. You can select a value easily by clicking on it.
In real life paints might have a different shade compared to as they appear on your display. You shall always consult and double-check colors with a professional paint provider before you order.
The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
The left side contains the reference color, while the right side shows the matched color. For each item there is a link to our partner MyPerfectColor.com, where you can buy corresponding paints.
Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to French Bistre respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish orange color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Grullo, Beaver, Shadow, Lion, Khaki (Web), Tan, Pale Silver, Silver (Crayola), Bone, Timberwolf, Isabelline, Platinum, Alabaster and Linen.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish orange color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Umber, Tuscan Brown, Coffee, Dark Brown, Dark Lava, Taupe, Café Noir, Olive Drab 7, Bistre, Black Chocolate, Smoky Black, Eerie Black and Black.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish orange color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Raw Umber, Shadow, Gold Fusion, Nickel, Sonic Silver, Dim Gray and Granite Gray.
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Liver (horses), Bole, Antique Brass, Tumbleweed, Dark Brown, Café Noir, Light French Beige, Khaki (Web), Army Green, Rifle Green, Sage and Misty Moss.
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Shadow, Indigo Dye, YInMn Blue, Iceberg and Aero.
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, violet and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Shadow, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac, Glossy Grape, Deep Jungle Green, Warm Black, Green Sheen and Verdigris.
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, green, azure and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Shadow, Brunswick Green, English Green, Green Sheen, Polished Pine, Indigo Dye, YInMn Blue, Iceberg, Aero, Eggplant, Dark Byzantium, Kobi and Lilac.
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