{{short description|Rich dark brown color}} {{For|the coat color in horses|Seal brown (horse)}} {{infobox color |title=Seal brown |hex=321414 |source=ColorHexa<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seal brown / #321414 hex color |url=https://www.colorhexa.com/321414 |access-date=2025-12-12 |website=ColorHexa |language=en-us}}</ref> |isccname=Deep brown}}
'''Seal brown''' is a rich dark brown color, resembling the color of the dyed fur from the fur seal.
==Usage== The specifications for the U.S. Army Air Corps Type A-2 jacket (regulation summer flying jacket), adopted in 1931 and the most familiar among all leather flight jackets, stated that it should be made of horsehide tanned to seal brown.{{Citation needed |date=December 2019}} However, initially, oxidation during the dyeing process caused the jackets to end up russet (a lighter, reddish brown) in color.{{Citation needed |date=December 2019}} Later in the decade, they were able to prevent oxidation during dyeing, and the jackets produced were a proper dark brown.{{Citation needed |date=December 2019}}
Seal brown is one of the official colors of Lehigh University, Brown University,<ref>Mitchell, Martha. (1993). "[https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=C0560 College Color]". ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana''.</ref> the Cleveland Browns football team,<ref name="cleveland_browns">{{Cite web | last = King | first = Steve | authorlink = | title = The Kardiac Kids | department = The Official Website of the Cleveland Browns | publisher = The Cleveland Browns | date = 2007 | url = http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/print_page.php?id=4160 | format = | doi = | access-date = 22 November 2009 | archive-date = 25 January 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220125084154/https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/print_page.php?id=4160 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and the engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.<ref>Tau Beta Pi Association. (2009). "[http://www.tbp.org/pages/About/InformationBook/History.cfm History]" ({{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103003206/http://www.tbp.org/pages/About/InformationBook/History.cfm |date=2008-11-03 }}). ''Tau Beta Pi Information Book''.</ref>
==See also== * List of colors
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{{Shades of brown}}
Category:Shades of brown
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