Rosy brown

#b59ca5

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

This is Rosy brown, a muted pink at 338 degrees. 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 #b59ca5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b59ca5

RGB181, 156, 165

HSL338, 14%, 66%

HSV338, 14%, 71%

CMYK0%, 14%, 9%, 29%

Lab66.76, 10.76, -1.28

XYZ37.74, 36.32, 40.62

Decimal11902117

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone5215 C

Shades of rosy brown

#a88a95 #9b7985 #8c6976 #7b5c67 #694f58 #584249 #46343b #35272c #231a1d #120d0f

Tints of rosy brown

#bca5ad #c2aeb5 #c9b7bd #d0c0c5 #d6c8cd #ddd1d5 #e3dadd #eae3e6 #f1ecee #f7f5f6

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#9cb5ac Analogous#b59cb2 Analogous#b5a09c Triadic#a5b59c Triadic#9ca5b5 Split complementary#9cb5a0 Split complementary#9cb2b5

Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 14, 9, 29.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b59ca5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 14 9 29

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 17 12 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Rosy brown in css

Copy #b59ca5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b59ca5; }
.text { color: #b59ca5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b59ca5; }

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 #b59ca5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b59ca5 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 #b59ca5 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 #b59ca5 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 #b59ca5 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.