Rosy brown

#dc9a9e

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

Rosy brown is a light red that reads soft. 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 #dc9a9e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dc9a9e

RGB220, 154, 158

HSL356, 49%, 73%

HSV356, 30%, 86%

CMYK0%, 30%, 28%, 14%

Lab70.03, 25.24, 7.85

XYZ47.24, 40.8, 37.73

Decimal14457502

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone508 C

Shades of rosy brown

#d38086 #ca676d #c14d55 #b03d44 #96343a #7d2b30 #632226 #4a1a1c #301113 #170809

Tints of rosy brown

#dfa3a6 #e2acaf #e5b4b7 #e8bdc0 #ebc6c8 #eecfd1 #f1d7d9 #f4e0e1 #f7e9ea #faf2f2

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#9adcd8 Analogous#dc9abf Analogous#dcb79a Triadic#9edc9a Triadic#9a9edc Split complementary#9adcb7 Split complementary#9abfdc

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, 30, 28, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dc9a9e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 30 28 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 32 30 20

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 #dc9a9e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dc9a9e; }
.text { color: #dc9a9e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dc9a9e; }

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 #dc9a9e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dc9a9e 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 #dc9a9e 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 #dc9a9e 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 #dc9a9e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.