#AB8C92 is a muted, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #AB8C92 works with other colors. Named schemes with #AB8C92 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Rosy Brown sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
This palette keeps Rosy Brown as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Rosy Brown anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Rosy Brown opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Rosy Brown is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Rosy Brown carrying the quiet middle.
How #AB8C92 actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #AB8C92 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #AB8C92;
--color-base-rgb: 171 140 146;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(67.0% 0.038 5.1);
--color-50: #F9F6F7;
--color-100: #EEE7E9;
--color-200: #DDD0D2;
--color-300: #C2ADB1;
--color-400: #A68C91;
--color-500: #886C72;
--color-600: #6B575B;
--color-700: #4E4144;
--color-800: #342D2E;
--color-900: #211C1D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
rosy-brown: {
50: '#F9F6F7',
100: '#EEE7E9',
200: '#DDD0D2',
300: '#C2ADB1',
400: '#A68C91',
500: '#886C72',
600: '#6B575B',
700: '#4E4144',
800: '#342D2E',
900: '#211C1D',
},
}
$base: #AB8C92; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F9F6F7; $base-100: #EEE7E9; $base-200: #DDD0D2; $base-300: #C2ADB1; $base-400: #A68C91; $base-500: #886C72; $base-600: #6B575B; $base-700: #4E4144; $base-800: #342D2E; $base-900: #211C1D; $base-hover: #906970; $base-subtle: #E5DEDF;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#AB8C92",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EEE7E9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DDD0D2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C2ADB1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#A68C91",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#886C72",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6B575B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4E4144",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#342D2E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211C1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}