Dusty rose color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around dusty rose. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

A muted mid pink with grey mixed in. It is the pink that appears in most "romantic but not sweet" palettes, and it pairs with sage almost automatically.

Dusty rose hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#B08192

HEX: #B08192
RGB: rgb(176, 129, 146)
HSL: hsl(338, 23%, 60%)
OKLCH: oklch(65.4% 0.062 355.5)
On white: 3.28:1
On black: 6.40:1

Shades of dusty rose

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Dusty rose color values

#B08192rgb(176, 129, 146)

Color spaces of #b08192
RGB	176	129	146
HSL	338°	23%	60%
HSV	338°	27%	69%
CMYK	0.00	0.27	0.17	0.31
XYZ	30.9432	27.0073	30.7716
Yxy	27.0073	0.3488	0.3044
CIE-Lab	58.9811	20.7689	-1.9704
Hunter Lab	51.9686	15.3376	1.2713
OKLCH	65.4%	0.062	355.5°

#B08192 is 176 red, 129 green and 146 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #999999.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	10110000	10000001	10010010
Octal	260	201	222
Decimal	176	129	146
Hex	B0	81	92

#b08192 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#B08192
#9E7483
#8C6774
#7B5A66
#694D57
#584049
#46333A
#34262B
#23191D
#110C0E
#000000

#b08192 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#B08192
#B78D9C
#BF9AA7
#C7A6B2
#CFB3BD
#D7C0C8
#DFCCD3
#E7D9DE
#EFE5E9
#F7F2F4
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red39.0%
Green28.6%
Blue32.4%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#B08192
#679D8F

Triadic

#B08192
#8F956A
#6B97B2

Analogous

#B08192
#B4827D
#A584A5

Monochromatic

#441E2E
#663D4D
#8A5E6E
#B08192
#D7A6B7
#FFCCDE
#FFF6F9

#b08192 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 6.40:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 3.28:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #b08192

color: #b08192;
background-color: #b08192;
border: 3px solid #b08192;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #b08192;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(176, 129, 146, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(65.4% 0.062 355.5);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Dusty rose on white measures 3.28:1 and on black 6.40:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.43:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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