Rosy Brown

Hex #BC8F8F, rgb(188 143 143). A brown CSS named color.

Rosy Brown#BC8F8F

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About Rosy Brown

Rosy Brown is a medium muted brown with the hex code #BC8F8F. In RGB it is made of 188 red, 143 green and 143 blue; in HSL its hue is 0°, with 25% saturation and 65% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 69.3%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "rosybrown" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.81:1 and against black 7.46:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Rosy Brown mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Rosy Brown 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Rosy Brown

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Rosy Brown with white and black. The readable text color on Rosy Brown is black.

Rosy Brown textSmall text on white

On white2.81:1

AA fail
AA Large fail
AAA fail
UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 54

Rosy Brown textSmall text on black

On black7.46:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA pass
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -48

Black text on Rosy Brown (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Rosy Brown appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#97958F
Deuteranopia#A19D8E
Tritanopia#C58B8F
Protanomaly#A2948F
Deuteranomaly#A79A8E
Tritanomaly#C08D8F
Achromatopsia#9A9A9A

Colors similar to Rosy Brown

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Rosy Brown in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.rosy-brown {
  color: rosybrown; /* #BC8F8F */
  background-color: rgb(188 143 143);
  border-color: oklch(69.3% 0.055 18.6);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-rosy-brown-500, text-rosy-brown-700... */
@theme {
  --color-rosy-brown-50: #FDF9F9;
  --color-rosy-brown-100: #F4EBEB;
  --color-rosy-brown-200: #E8D6D6;
  --color-rosy-brown-300: #D6B7B7;
  --color-rosy-brown-400: #BC8F8F;
  --color-rosy-brown-500: #A97677;
  --color-rosy-brown-600: #936364;
  --color-rosy-brown-700: #784F50;
  --color-rosy-brown-800: #5F3F40;
  --color-rosy-brown-900: #4D3334;
  --color-rosy-brown-950: #201111;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#BC8F8F] text-[#000000]">…</div>