Rosy brown

#b59591

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. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #b59591, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b59591

RGB181, 149, 145

HSL7, 20%, 64%

HSV7, 20%, 71%

CMYK0%, 18%, 20%, 29%

Lab64.45, 11.31, 6.6

XYZ34.91, 33.36, 31.39

Decimal11900305

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone5215 C

Shades of rosy brown

#a9847f #9d736e #8e655f #7c5854 #6b4c48 #593f3c #473330 #362624 #241918 #120d0c

Tints of rosy brown

#bc9f9b #c2a8a5 #c9b2af #d0bbb9 #d6c5c3 #ddcecd #e4d8d7 #eae2e0 #f1ebea #f8f5f4

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#91b1b5 Analogous#b5919f Analogous#b5a791 Triadic#91b595 Triadic#9591b5 Split complementary#91b5a7 Split complementary#919fb5

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, 18, 20, 29.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b59591 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 18 20 29

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 22 35

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 #b59591 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b59591; }
.text { color: #b59591; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b59591; }

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 #b59591 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b59591 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 #b59591 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 #b59591 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 #b59591 are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.