Rosy brown

#dca8a1

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 relaxed. 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 #dca8a1, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dca8a1

RGB220, 168, 161

HSL7, 46%, 75%

HSV7, 27%, 86%

CMYK0%, 24%, 27%, 14%

Lab73.41, 18.1, 11.01

XYZ49.95, 45.79, 39.92

Decimal14461089

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone693 C

Shades of rosy brown

#d29087 #c9796e #bf6154 #af4e41 #964338 #7c382e #632c25 #49211b #301512 #160a08

Tints of rosy brown

#dfafa9 #e2b7b1 #e5beb9 #e8c6c1 #ebcdc9 #eed5d2 #f1dcda #f4e4e2 #f7ebea #faf3f2

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#a1d5dc Analogous#dca1b7 Analogous#dcc5a1 Triadic#a1dca8 Triadic#a8a1dc Split complementary#a1dcc5 Split complementary#a1b8dc

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, 24, 27, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dca8a1 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 24 27 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 26 29 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 #dca8a1 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dca8a1; }
.text { color: #dca8a1; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dca8a1; }

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 #dca8a1 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dca8a1 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 #dca8a1 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 #dca8a1 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

Every value on this page for #dca8a1 is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.