Rosy brown

#ae8a8d

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for rosy brown, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Rosy brown is a mid red that reads confident. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #ae8a8d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ae8a8d

RGB174, 138, 141

HSL355, 18%, 61%

HSV355, 21%, 68%

CMYK0%, 21%, 19%, 32%

Lab60.87, 14.14, 3.61

XYZ31.35, 29.1, 29.16

Decimal11438733

Web safe#999999

Pantone5215 C

Shades of rosy brown

#a2797d #97696d #865d61 #765255 #654649 #553b3d #442f31 #332425 #231819 #120d0d

Tints of rosy brown

#b59597 #bd9fa2 #c4aaac #cbb5b6 #d3bfc1 #dacacb #e2d5d6 #e9dfe0 #f0eaea #f8f4f5

Colors that go with rosy brown

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Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 21, 19, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ae8a8d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 21 19 32

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 23 21 38

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Rosy brown in css

Copy #ae8a8d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ae8a8d; }
.text { color: #ae8a8d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ae8a8d; }

How rosy brown looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Rosy brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ae8a8d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ae8a8d against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Rosy brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ae8a8d sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around rosy brown? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn rosy brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ae8a8d and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from rosy brown, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #ae8a8d are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.