Dark Brown
Humbrol · Humbrol Aerosol Sprays · S29
#ECDBCB · L*88.4 a*3.2 b*10.0
The closest match to Humbrol Dark Brown in every other range, nearest first.
Humbrol Dark Brown is a very light, muted orange. 3 ranges carry a near-perfect stand-in for it, the closest being Scale75 Grau at ΔE 1.5. 17 of the 30 other ranges have nothing within ΔE 5, so a substitution from those will read as a different colour.
What the ΔE numbers below mean, and how close a match has to be
What is the closest equivalent to Humbrol Dark Brown?
Scale75 Grau is the closest equivalent to Humbrol Dark Brown in any other range, at ΔE 1.5 — a near-perfect substitute. Next nearest: FolkArt Spun Sugar (ΔE 1.7) and The Army Painter Boney Spikes (ΔE 2.0).
What is the Vallejo alternative to Humbrol Dark Brown?
The nearest Vallejo paint is Cream White, ΔE 2.2 — a very close substitute. The full Humbrol to Vallejo conversion chart lists the rest.
Shop Humbrol Dark Brown Shop Scale75 Grau Shop Scale75 Warfront Range set
Dark Brown equivalent in Scale75
- A Grau Warfront Range ΔE 1.5 · near-perfect
- C Pale Dust Soil Works ΔE 3.7 · close
Dark Brown equivalent in FolkArt
- A Spun Sugar Acrylic Colors 2566 ΔE 1.7 · near-perfect
- B Portrait Light Acrylic Colors 421 ΔE 2.4 · very close
Dark Brown equivalent in The Army Painter
- A Boney Spikes Warpaints Fanatic ΔE 2.0 · near-perfect
- C Mummy Robes Warpaints WP1440 ΔE 3.9 · close
Dark Brown equivalent in Vallejo
- B Cream White Model Color 70.766 ΔE 2.2 · very close
- B Brassy Brass Game Color 72.058 ΔE 2.2 · very close
Dark Brown equivalent in Acrilex
- B Areia Paints 817 ΔE 2.3 · very close
- C Amarelo Pêssego Paints 929 ΔE 3.6 · close
Dark Brown equivalent in P3
- B Ryn Flesh Privateer Press Formula P3 ΔE 2.6 · very close
- D Menoth White Highlight Privateer Press Formula P3 ΔE 9.5 · similar
Dark Brown equivalent in Foundry
- B British Denison Brown Light Paint System 97C ΔE 2.8 · very close
- D Canvas Light Paint System 8C ΔE 5.5 · similar
Dark Brown equivalent in Apple Barrel
- B Toasted Marshmallow Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic Paints 21955E ΔE 3.1 · very close
- C Warm Buff Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic Paints 21980E ΔE 4.9 · close
Dark Brown equivalent in Reaper
- B Maiden Flesh Master Series Paints Bones 9475 ΔE 3.2 · very close
- C Leather White Master Series Paints Core Colors 9062 ΔE 4.0 · close
Dark Brown equivalent in Mr. Paint
- C Cdl Bleached Mr Paint MRP-256 ΔE 4.2 · close
- C Cream RAL 9001 Mr Paint - Aqua Colors MRP-A033 ΔE 4.8 · close
Dark Brown equivalent in AK Interactive
- C FS 37886 Offwhite Air AK2147 ΔE 4.2 · close
- D Iraqi Army Desert Sand Real Colors - AFV RC104 ΔE 5.9 · similar
Dark Brown equivalent in Citadel
- C Typhon Ash Air ΔE 4.6 · close
- D Bleached Bone Foundation (discontinued) ΔE 8.2 · similar
Dark Brown in the remaining ranges
These ranges have nothing close. The nearest they offer is listed anyway.
| Range | Nearest paint | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Hobby | #FCE3D6 | Character Flesh (1) Mr Color | ΔE 4.6 |
| Green Stuff World | #DCCFC9 | Moon Mist Grey Acrylic Colors | ΔE 5.2 |
| Mig | #D6C7B4 | Fs 33531 Middlestone Acrylics | ΔE 5.2 |
| Monument | #E0CABF | Pale Pink Pro Acrylic Paints | ΔE 5.3 |
| Mission Models | #D6CFC5 | US Camouflage Grey FS 36622 | ΔE 5.3 |
| Creature | #DFD3BA | Ivory Monument Pro Acryl | ΔE 5.6 |
| Golden | #F3E4C7 | Titan Buff OPEN Acrylics | ΔE 5.8 |
| Tom Color | #D8D1BF | Couro Branco | ΔE 5.9 |
| Duncan | #D2C7BF | Ivory Tusk Wave 1 | ΔE 6.0 |
| Coat d'Arms | #D1C0B0 | Bronze Military Range | ΔE 6.5 |
| Liquitex | #D9D6CF | Iridescent White Heavy Body Acrylix | ΔE 6.5 |
| Turbo Dork | #CFC9C2 | Sparkle Motion | ΔE 6.9 |
| Arteza | #FEE6C2 | Light Apricot Acrylic Premium Paints | ΔE 7.1 |
| Tamiya | #D0CCC0 | Light gray Lacquer Paint | ΔE 7.1 |
| Italeri | #E1E1D7 | Gull Gray Acrylic Paint | ΔE 7.7 |
| Revell | #F3F2ED | White Email Color - Gloss | ΔE 8.6 |
| Kimera Kolors | #E4E4E4 | The White Pure Pigments | ΔE 9.0 |
| Warcolours | #EDEDED | Transparent White Transparent paints | ΔE 9.5 |
Nearest colours inside Humbrol
- D Oak Acrylics - Satin ΔE 8.3 · similar
- D White Gloss Aerosol Sprays ΔE 8.5 · similar
- D Silver Acrylics - Metallics ΔE 8.9 · similar
- E Silver Aerosol Sprays ΔE 10.3 · far
- E Light Grey Acrylics - Matt ΔE 10.4 · far
- E Gloss Varnish Acrylics - Gloss ΔE 11.3 · far
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