Rosy brown

#aa9c98

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, mid and grey. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #aa9c98, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#aa9c98

RGB170, 156, 152

HSL13, 10%, 63%

HSV13, 11%, 67%

CMYK0%, 8%, 11%, 33%

Lab65.43, 4.42, 3.94

XYZ34.13, 34.59, 34.58

Decimal11181208

Web safe#999999

Pantone408 C

Shades of rosy brown

#9d8d88 #907d78 #816f6a #71615d #615350 #514643 #413835 #312a28 #211c1b #110e0e

Tints of rosy brown

#b2a5a1 #b9aeab #c1b7b4 #c9c0bd #d0c9c7 #d8d2d0 #e0dbd9 #e8e4e3 #efedec #f7f6f5

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#98a6aa Analogous#aa989d Analogous#aaa598 Triadic#98aa9c Triadic#9c98aa Split complementary#98aaa5 Split complementary#989daa

Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 8, 11, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #aa9c98 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 8 11 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 11 14 39

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 #aa9c98 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #aa9c98; }
.text { color: #aa9c98; }
.border { border: 2px solid #aa9c98; }

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 #aa9c98 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #aa9c98 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 #aa9c98 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 #aa9c98 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 #aa9c98 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.