Dark salmon

#cb8d78

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for dark salmon, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Dark salmon sits in the orange range, mid and soft. A mid orange this warm suits food, sport and friendly brands. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #cb8d78, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cb8d78

RGB203, 141, 120

HSL15, 44%, 63%

HSV15, 41%, 80%

CMYK0%, 31%, 41%, 20%

Lab64.24, 20.98, 20.67

XYZ37.54, 33.1, 22.18

Decimal13340024

Web safe#cc9966

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#c37b63 #bb694e #aa5c41 #955039 #804531 #6b3a29 #552e21 #402319 #2b1711 #160c09

Tints of dark salmon

#d09784 #d4a290 #d9ac9d #deb6a9 #e3c1b5 #e7cbc1 #ecd5cd #f1dfda #f5eae6 #faf4f2

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#78b6cb Analogous#cb788c Analogous#cbb778 Triadic#78cb8d Triadic#8d78cb Split complementary#78cbb6 Split complementary#788dcb

Dark salmon in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 31, 41, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cb8d78 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 31 41 20

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 33 42 26

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Dark salmon in css

Copy #cb8d78 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cb8d78; }
.text { color: #cb8d78; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cb8d78; }

How dark salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #cb8d78 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cb8d78 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #cb8d78 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark salmon? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #cb8d78 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from dark salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #cb8d78 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.