Rosy brown

#bb8576

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

This is Rosy brown, a soft red sitting at 13 degrees on the wheel. 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 #bb8576, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bb8576

RGB187, 133, 118

HSL13, 34%, 60%

HSV13, 37%, 73%

CMYK0%, 29%, 37%, 27%

Lab60.47, 18.77, 16.34

XYZ32.15, 28.65, 20.97

Decimal12289398

Web safe#cc9966

Pantone5005 C

Shades of rosy brown

#b27564 #a76553 #955a4a #824f41 #704438 #5e392f #4b2e25 #39231c #271713 #140c0a

Tints of rosy brown

#c19083 #c79b8f #cea69c #d4b2a8 #dabdb5 #e0c8c1 #e6d3ce #eddeda #f3e9e7 #f9f4f3

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#76acbb Analogous#bb7689 Analogous#bba776 Triadic#76bb85 Triadic#8576bb Split complementary#76bba7 Split complementary#768abb

Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 29, 37, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bb8576 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 29 37 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 31 38 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 #bb8576 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bb8576; }
.text { color: #bb8576; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bb8576; }

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 #bb8576 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bb8576 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 #bb8576 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 #bb8576 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

Every value on this page for #bb8576 is computed, not guessed. 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.