Rosy brown

#a17581

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

Rosy brown is a mid pink, balanced and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #a17581, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a17581

RGB161, 117, 129

HSL344, 19%, 55%

HSV344, 27%, 63%

CMYK0%, 27%, 20%, 37%

Lab53.9, 19.14, 0.26

XYZ25.02, 21.88, 23.67

Decimal10581377

Web safe#996699

Pantone5135 C

Shades of rosy brown

#976774 #885d68 #79535d #6a4952 #5c3f46 #4d343b #3e2a30 #302025 #211619 #120c0e

Tints of rosy brown

#aa828d #b28e98 #bb9ba4 #c4a8b0 #ccb5bb #d5c1c7 #deced2 #e6dbde #efe8ea #f8f4f5

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#75a195 Analogous#a17597 Analogous#a17f75 Triadic#81a175 Triadic#7581a1 Split complementary#75a17f Split complementary#7597a1

Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 27, 20, 37.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a17581 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 27 20 37

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 29 22 43

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Rosy brown in css

Copy #a17581 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a17581; }
.text { color: #a17581; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a17581; }

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 #a17581 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a17581 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Rosy brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a17581 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn rosy brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a17581 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 #a17581 are worked out. 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.