Rosy brown

#c49a9f

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 353 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 #c49a9f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c49a9f

RGB196, 154, 159

HSL353, 26%, 69%

HSV353, 21%, 77%

CMYK0%, 21%, 19%, 23%

Lab67.54, 16.41, 3.38

XYZ40.58, 37.35, 37.87

Decimal12884639

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone5215 C

Shades of rosy brown

#b8868c #ac7279 #a05e66 #8c5259 #78464c #643a3f #502f33 #3c2326 #271719 #130b0c

Tints of rosy brown

#c9a3a8 #ceacb0 #d4b5b9 #d9bec1 #dec7ca #e3d0d2 #e9d9db #eee2e3 #f3ebec #f8f4f4

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#9ac4bf Analogous#c49ab4 Analogous#c4aa9a Triadic#9fc49a Triadic#9a9fc4 Split complementary#9ac4aa Split complementary#9ab4c4

Rosy brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 21, 19, 23.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c49a9f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 21 19 23

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 23 21 29

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 #c49a9f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c49a9f; }
.text { color: #c49a9f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c49a9f; }

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 #c49a9f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c49a9f 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 #c49a9f 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 #c49a9f 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 #c49a9f are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.