Rosy brown

#c8a9a0

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

Rosy brown lands in the red band, light and muted. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #c8a9a0, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8a9a0

RGB200, 169, 160

HSL13, 27%, 71%

HSV13, 20%, 78%

CMYK0%, 16%, 20%, 22%

Lab71.69, 9.86, 8.84

XYZ44.35, 43.19, 39.26

Decimal13150624

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone436 C

Shades of rosy brown

#bc968b #b08376 #a47061 #916154 #7c5348 #67453c #52372f #3d2923 #281b17 #130d0b

Tints of rosy brown

#cdb1a8 #d2b8b1 #d7c0b9 #dbc7c1 #e0cfca #e5d6d2 #eadedb #efe6e3 #f4edeb #f8f5f4

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#a0bfc8 Analogous#c8a0ab Analogous#c8bda0 Triadic#a0c8a9 Triadic#a9a0c8 Split complementary#a0c8bd Split complementary#a0abc8

Rosy brown in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 16, 20, 22.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8a9a0 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 16 20 22

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 19 22 28

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 #c8a9a0 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8a9a0; }
.text { color: #c8a9a0; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8a9a0; }

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 #c8a9a0 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8a9a0 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 #c8a9a0 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 #c8a9a0 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

The figures for #c8a9a0 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.