Umber vs. Ochre — What's the Difference?

Umber is a natural brown or reddish-brown earth pigment that contains iron oxide and manganese oxide. Umber is darker than the other similar earth pigments, ochre and sienna.In its natural form, it is called raw umber.

Ochre ( OH-kər; from Ancient Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale), or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown.

A natural brown earth containing ferric oxide and manganese oxides, used as pigment.

An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red

Any of the shades of brown produced by umber in its various states.

Variant of ocher.

Of or related to umber.

An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide

Having a brownish color.

A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour

To darken with or as if with umber.

The stop codon sequence "UAA."

A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

(slang) Money, especially gold.

Alternative form of umbrere

Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.

A grayling.

(obsolete) nodot=a.

A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Having a yellow-orange colour.

Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.

(archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.

(transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.

To cover or tint with ochre.

A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

See Ocher.

An umbrere.

Any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment

See Grayling, 1.

A moderate yellow-orange to orange color

An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.

Of a moderate orange-yellow color

Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.

To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

An earth pigment

A medium to dark brown color

Of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments