Rose Gold Color Codes

Rose Gold is a mid-tone, muted red with the hex code #B76E79, RGB values of 183, 110, 121 and an HSL value of hsl(351, 34%, 57%).

HEX	#B76E79
RGB	183, 110, 121
HSL	hsl(351, 34%, 57%)
HSV	351°, 40%, 72%
CMYK	0%, 40%, 34%, 28%
LAB	54.66, 30.31, 6.38
CIELCHuv	54.66, 48.09, 3.62°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 695 C ΔE 3.7 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: rosybrown ΔE 16.0

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Rose Gold Color Hex Code

The Rose Gold color hex code is #B76E79. Those six digits are three pairs, B7 for red, 6E for green and 79 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#B76E79

Rose Gold Color RGB Code

The Rose Gold RGB code is rgb(183, 110, 121). Red carries the most light at 183 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(183, 110, 121)

Rose Gold Color HSV Code

The Rose Gold HSV code is 351°, 40%, 72%. Read it as a hue of 351 degrees, 40% saturation and 72% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

351°, 40%, 72%

Rose Gold Color CIELChuv Code

The Rose Gold CIELCHuv code is 54.66, 48.09, 3.62°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 55 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 48 is how far it sits from grey.

54.66, 48.09, 3.62°

Tonal scale

What are Rose Gold Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

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Palettes

What are Rose Gold Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #B76E79. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #6EB7AC, a mid-tone, muted teal. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Either side sit #B76E9E and #B7886E, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#79B76E and #6E79B7 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #6EB788 and #6E9EB7. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #6EB7AC, and #9EB76E with #886EB7. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

3.80:1

3.80

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

5.52:1

5.52

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Against white Rose Gold reaches 3.80:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 5.52:1.

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Color vision

How Rose Gold looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#9D9C76

Rose Gold changes substantially here. ΔE 39.9

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#A1A576

Rose Gold changes substantially here. ΔE 44.9

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#B47474

Rose Gold shifts slightly here. ΔE 6.6

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#838383

Rose Gold changes substantially here. ΔE 31.0

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Rose Gold reads as #A1A576. That is a shift of ΔE 44.9, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 44.9. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

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Snippets

Using Rose Gold in code

:root {
  --rose-gold: #B76E79;
}

.example {
  color: var(--rose-gold);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'rose-gold': '#B76E79',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let roseGold = Color(
    red: 0.718,
    green: 0.431,
    blue: 0.475
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="rose_gold">#B76E79</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const roseGold = Color(0xFFB76E79);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Rose Gold Color?

Rose Gold reads as care and gentleness. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 34% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 55 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Rose Gold Color?

The closest CSS keyword is RosyBrown (#BC8F8F), though it is not a match: Delta-E 16.0 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 695 C at #B26B70. The name Rose Gold comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Rose Gold Color Made?

On a screen Rose Gold is made by additive light: 183 red, 110 green and 121 blue out of 255, with red leading and 110 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 40%, 34%, 28%. Starting from the pure hue at 351 degrees, Rose Gold is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.