Rosy brown

#af8d8a

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 muted. 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 #af8d8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#af8d8a

RGB175, 141, 138

HSL5, 19%, 61%

HSV5, 21%, 69%

CMYK0%, 19%, 21%, 31%

Lab61.65, 12.37, 6.46

XYZ31.79, 30.0, 28.16

Decimal11505034

Web safe#999999

Pantone5215 C

Shades of rosy brown

#a47d79 #986c68 #88605d #775451 #664846 #553c3a #44312f #342523 #231918 #120d0c

Tints of rosy brown

#b69795 #bea29f #c5acaa #ccb6b5 #d3c1bf #dbcbca #e2d6d4 #e9e0df #f0eaea #f8f5f4

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, 19, 21, 31.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #af8d8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 19 21 31

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 23 37

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 #af8d8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #af8d8a; }
.text { color: #af8d8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #af8d8a; }

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 #af8d8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #af8d8a 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 #af8d8a 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 #af8d8a 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 #af8d8a are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.