Rosy brown

#ab9ca2

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

Rosy brown sits in the pink band, mid and grey. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #ab9ca2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ab9ca2

RGB171, 156, 162

HSL336, 8%, 64%

HSV336, 9%, 67%

CMYK0%, 9%, 5%, 33%

Lab65.78, 6.57, -1.14

XYZ35.2, 35.04, 39.09

Decimal11246754

Web safe#999999

Pantone5295 C

Shades of rosy brown

#9d8c93 #907c84 #816d75 #716067 #615258 #514449 #41373b #31292c #211c1e #110e0f

Tints of rosy brown

#b3a5aa #baaeb3 #c2b7bb #c9c0c4 #d1c9cc #d8d2d4 #e0dbdd #e8e3e5 #efecee #f7f5f6

Colors that go with rosy brown

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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, 9, 5, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ab9ca2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 5 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 9 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 #ab9ca2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ab9ca2; }
.text { color: #ab9ca2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ab9ca2; }

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 #ab9ca2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ab9ca2 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 #ab9ca2 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 #ab9ca2 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 #ab9ca2 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 coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.