Golden brown

Where it sits

True Autumn palette

Golden brown is an anchor color in True Autumn. Its closest relative outside the palette is Golden brown #9C6B34, a True Spring color, at a perceptual distance of 6. That is near enough for that season to wear it as a neutral, with the accents kept in its own palette.

At RGB 160, 105, 42 the red leads, the green is in the middle and the blue is very low. The very low blue is what gives it the golden cast: this is a brown that leans toward amber. It is the color of maple syrup or a polished chestnut. Lighten it and it becomes Dark Autumn's camel; darken it and it becomes True Autumn's bronze.

A True Autumn wears it as a rich neutral: boots, bags, belts, a suede jacket, corduroy, a knit. It carries the palette's warmth even when the rest of the outfit is cream and denim. It works with warm cream and dark chocolate, and it pairs well with moss green, rust and warm teal.

Retail calls it tan, cognac, ginger, caramel, bronze and tobacco. Boden's Ginger and Tan, Marine Layer's Bronze and Golden Deep and STAUD's Gilded have landed on it. It is in stores all year in leather and mostly in fall elsewhere. The version to avoid is the greyed taupe-brown, which belongs to the Soft seasons.

Easily confused with

The nearest color is True Spring's golden brown at six points, a touch lighter; the two pass for each other. Dark Autumn's camel is eight points off and its aged brass eleven, both more yellow. Soft Autumn's soft rust is sixteen points away and redder. Everything close is a warm-season brown. The cool browns of the Summers and Winters are far off and look grey or pink beside it.

The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).

In stock in this color today

As of November 11, 2026, 7 in-stock pieces across Boden, Marine Layer and STAUD sample within a close match of #A0692A. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.

Rhoda Cord Short Dress

Gingerbread

$160 at Boden

Reese Quilted Jacket

Bronze

$248 at Marine Layer

Rowan Suede Jacket

Camel

$448 at Marine Layer

Evelyn Button Cord Wrap Skirt

Gingerbread

$110 at Boden

Aerin Mini Dress

Gilded

$395 at STAUD

Natalie Suede Jacket

Tan

$995 at STAUD

High Rise Cord Column

Gingerbread

$149 at Boden

What it's sold as

Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #A0692A today, so they are the words to search for.

Boden

Gingerbread

Marine Layer

Bronze, Camel

STAUD

Gilded, Tan

A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.

Questions

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