Rosy brown

#ca8a8e

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

Rosy brown is a mid red that reads grounded. 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 #ca8a8e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ca8a8e

RGB202, 138, 142

HSL356, 38%, 67%

HSV356, 32%, 79%

CMYK0%, 32%, 30%, 21%

Lab63.91, 24.98, 7.8

XYZ38.33, 32.69, 29.88

Decimal13273742

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone500 C

Shades of rosy brown

#c07579 #b75f65 #aa4d53 #954349 #803a3e #6a3034 #552629 #401d1f #2a1315 #150a0a

Tints of rosy brown

#cf9498 #d39fa2 #d8a9ac #ddb4b6 #e2bec1 #e6c9cb #ebd3d5 #f0dedf #f5e8e9 #f9f3f3

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#8acac6 Analogous#ca8aae Analogous#caa68a Triadic#8eca8a Triadic#8a8eca Split complementary#8acaa6 Split complementary#8aaeca

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, 32, 30, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ca8a8e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 32 30 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 33 32 27

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 #ca8a8e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ca8a8e; }
.text { color: #ca8a8e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ca8a8e; }

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 #ca8a8e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ca8a8e 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 #ca8a8e 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 #ca8a8e 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 #ca8a8e 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.