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RAL Colour 8012
Red brown
This RAL 8012 Colour is presented to you as a part of brown hues assortment on the RAL Classic colour chart. You will notice that all of these grouped colours follow this specific designation, which is based on four-digit number in combination with the letters "RAL". This is why brown colours are sequentialy coded under 8xxxx, where 8 is a system code number (1: yellow, 2: orange, 3: red, 4: purple, 5: blue, 6: green, 7: grey, 8: brown and 9: white and black shades).
The name Red brown actually serves as additional, auxiliary designation, making the colour easier to remember. This naming system also provides additonal quality assurance preventing erroneous colour assigment due to number transposition.
On this particular hue range, in addition to 'red brown', you will find hand-picked colour tones selected by RAL institute design experts. This brown colour assortment holds another 19 excellent tones (making a total of 20 unique colour samples).
You can click here for a list of brown hues, or open a full chart of 215 RAL Classic colours.
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◾ RAL 8012 to CMYK
In the CMYK colour system the RAL 8012 is composed by combining four primary tones of pigment. To achieve this exclusive "red brown" colour tone, out of 100% maximum colour components, 40% cyan, 90% magenta, 100% yellow and 50% key (black) are used.
You can immediately see this result on this computer simulated CMYK diagram.
The mixture of these primary colours blends in the middle on a square space where all four different colour hue sheets overlap.
◾ RAL 8012 to RGB
The conversion of RAL 8012 into RGB colour space requres specific composition of red, green, and blue primary colours.
To construct hue matching "red brown" colour from the RAL chart as close as possible, we use the following values ranging from 0 to 255 on the RGB colour system: 102 red, 51 green and 43 blue.
The three circle RGB diagram here provides illustrative example showing how red value stands out clearly in comparison to green and blue to construct this unique tone of colour.
The RAL colour equivalent emerges in the very center, where all three primary colour circles overlap and combine.
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RAL Colour scheme generator
While colors below are auto-selected, it is still performed in a very scientific manner. You see, there is a color theory, that helps to pick visually appealing companions to each color based on their distance on the color wheel. With this in mind, we can have very satisfying results, even though our initial color spectrum is only limited to 215 colors from the original RAL Classic collection.
