Rosy brown

#b9a09f

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 red sitting at 2 degrees on the wheel. 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 #b9a09f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b9a09f

RGB185, 160, 159

HSL2, 16%, 67%

HSV2, 14%, 73%

CMYK0%, 14%, 14%, 27%

Lab67.99, 9.0, 3.9

XYZ38.84, 37.96, 38.08

Decimal12165279

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone436 C

Shades of rosy brown

#ac8e8d #9f7c7b #916b69 #7e5e5c #6c504f #5a4342 #483535 #362827 #241a1a #120d0d

Tints of rosy brown

#bfa8a8 #c5b1b0 #ccb9b9 #d2c2c1 #d8caca #ded3d2 #e5dbdb #ebe4e4 #f1ecec #f7f5f5

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#9fb8b9 Analogous#b99fab Analogous#b9ad9f Triadic#9fb9a0 Triadic#a09fb9 Split complementary#9fb9ad Split complementary#9fabb9

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, 14, 14, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b9a09f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 14 14 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 17 17 33

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 #b9a09f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b9a09f; }
.text { color: #b9a09f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b9a09f; }

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 #b9a09f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b9a09f 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 #b9a09f 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 #b9a09f 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 #b9a09f 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. 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.