Dusty Rose (#DCAE96) is a light, moderately saturated orange hue. A greyed, earthy pink that feels vintage and calm; good with sage and cream.
In RGB it is made of 220 red, 174 green and 150 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 21° with 50% saturation and 73% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 79% with a chroma of 0.063. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 21% magenta, 32% yellow and 14% black.
As a text color on white, Dusty Rose has a contrast ratio of 1.99:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 10.54:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Dusty Rose as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 65 for black text and Lc -43 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #8FC2DA, close to sky blue. Colors that look most similar are tan, khaki, sand. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 5), so its meaning mostly survives.