50 Shades of Earth Color

Earth spans natural soil tones from warm ochre through rich brown to cool grey-brown. Nature designed these palettes over millions of years of actual soil chemistry. They work on instinct.This page covers the complete earth spectrum with hex codes and values. Sage, cream, sky blue. Each one pairs with earth tones because they all come from the same place.

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#375673

Blue Earth Color
Blue Earth, Minnesota, is named for the blue-green clay along its river, and Blue Earth color is a medium-dark denim at #375673. It’s earthy for a blue, with a steady grey base, like river clay shaded under a cloudy sky.
#a3485b

Earth Red Color
Real red earth runs orange-brown. Earth Red color stretches the truth into berry territory, a dusky raspberry at #a3485b with purple in it, rich and warm even if the name is a bit off the mark.
#545f5b

Earth Green Color
Terre verte, or green earth, is the clay pigment Renaissance painters used under flesh tones, and Earth Green color captures its drab tone. The hex #545f5b is a dark gray-green with green at 95. Warm light makes it gray.
#a2816e

Red Earth Color
Red Earth promises terracotta but delivers a muted pinkish tan, with red at 162 only modestly ahead of green at 129. It looks more like Arizona sandstone in shade than the iron-red soil of Australia’s outback. Warm light brings out the clay, and cool light makes it gray-beige.
#b08272

Pink Earth Color
Pink Earth color is what you get when red clay soil gets mixed with beach sand. At #b08272 it’s a dusty terracotta rose on the warm, brown side of pink, like a clay pot that’s baked on a patio for a whole summer.
#49433b

Earth Black Color
Earth Black is not truly black but a very dark brown-grey, the color of rich topsoil or roasted coffee grounds. It holds warmth that a pure black lacks. Think of a freshly tilled field seen at dusk.