Colours of buildings and cities
Walls, roofs, tiles, doors and whole painted towns.
Brown
Terracotta
A clay-based material and colour, known for its reddish-brown toneColour named from nature · 🇮🇳 India +4
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Beige
A pale, warm colour named after natural, undyed woolNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +2
Brown
Drab
A dull light brown named after undyed homespun wool clothNamed shade
Brown
Goethite
A yellowish to reddish brown mineral used as a pigment since ancient timesPigment · 🇩🇪 Germany +3
Brown
Iron oxide
Earthy pigments made from iron and oxygen, found in nature and used since prehistoryPigment
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Bronze
A metallic brown shade named after the bronze alloyNamed shade
Brown
Ferrihydrite
A dark brown to yellow-brown iron mineral found in soils and water depositsColour named from nature · 🇩🇪 Germany
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Desert sand
A pale, reddish yellow inspired by the colour of sand in desertsNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States
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Bole
A reddish-brown pigment made from fine clay, used under gold leaf in artNamed shade · 🇦🇲 Armenia
Brown
Earth tone
A palette of colours inspired by soil, stone, and natural landscapesColour named from nature
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bronze: Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Beige: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bole: Allegretto Nuzi, CC0, source
- Desert sand: Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Drab: M0tty, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Goethite: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Iron oxide: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fuzic&action=edit, Public domain, source
- Ferrihydrite: Henk Smeets – tomeikminerals.com, CC BY 4.0, source
- Terracotta: anonymous, CC0, source