Rosy brown

#cd9aaa

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

Rosy brown sits in the pink band, light and soft. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Rosy brown color values

Every conversion for #cd9aaa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cd9aaa

RGB205, 154, 170

HSL341, 34%, 70%

HSV341, 25%, 80%

CMYK0%, 25%, 17%, 20%

Lab68.75, 21.47, -0.89

XYZ43.99, 38.99, 43.24

Decimal13474474

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone680 C

Shades of rosy brown

#c28498 #b76e85 #ac5873 #984b63 #824155 #6c3647 #562b38 #40202a #2a151c #140a0d

Tints of rosy brown

#d1a3b1 #d6acb9 #dab5c0 #dfbec8 #e3c7cf #e7cfd7 #ecd8de #f0e1e6 #f5eaed #f9f3f5

Colors that go with rosy brown

Complementary#9acdbd Analogous#cd9ac3 Analogous#cda39a Triadic#aacd9a Triadic#9aaacd Split complementary#9acda3 Split complementary#9ac3cd

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, 25, 17, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cd9aaa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 25 17 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 27 20 26

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 #cd9aaa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cd9aaa; }
.text { color: #cd9aaa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cd9aaa; }

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 #cd9aaa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cd9aaa 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 #cd9aaa 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 #cd9aaa 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 #cd9aaa 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.