Rosy brown

#c8a8a3

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

This is Rosy brown, a muted red sitting at 8 degrees on the wheel. 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 #c8a8a3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8a8a3

RGB200, 168, 163

HSL8, 25%, 71%

HSV8, 19%, 78%

CMYK0%, 16%, 19%, 22%

Lab71.51, 10.87, 6.93

XYZ44.43, 42.93, 40.59

Decimal13150371

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone5225 C

Shades of rosy brown

#bc948e #af8179 #a36d65 #905e56 #7b504a #66433d #523531 #3d2824 #281a18 #130c0b

Tints of rosy brown

#cdb0ab #d2b7b3 #d6bfbb #dbc7c3 #e0cecb #e5d6d3 #eadedc #efe5e4 #f3edec #f8f4f4

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#a3c3c8 Analogous#c8a3b0 Analogous#c8bba3 Triadic#a3c8a8 Triadic#a8a3c8 Split complementary#a3c8bb Split complementary#a3b0c8

Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 16, 19, 22.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8a8a3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 16 19 22

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 19 21 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 #c8a8a3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8a8a3; }
.text { color: #c8a8a3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8a8a3; }

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 #c8a8a3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8a8a3 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 #c8a8a3 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 #c8a8a3 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 #c8a8a3 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.