Salmon

#ce7b6b

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

This is Salmon, a soft red sitting at 10 degrees on the wheel. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #ce7b6b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ce7b6b

RGB206, 123, 107

HSL10, 50%, 61%

HSV10, 48%, 81%

CMYK0%, 40%, 48%, 19%

Lab60.2, 30.57, 22.59

XYZ35.19, 28.35, 17.53

Decimal13532011

Web safe#cc6666

Pantone170 C

Shades of salmon

#c76856 #c05541 #ab4b39 #964232 #81392b #6c2f24 #57261d #411d16 #2c130f #170a08

Tints of salmon

#d28778 #d79386 #db9f93 #e0aba1 #e4b7ae #e9c3bc #edcfc9 #f2dbd7 #f6e7e4 #fbf3f2

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#6bbece Analogous#ce6b8c Analogous#cead6b Triadic#6bce7b Triadic#7b6bce Split complementary#6bcead Split complementary#6b8cce

Salmon in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 40, 48, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ce7b6b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 40 48 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 41 48 25

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.

Salmon in css

Copy #ce7b6b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ce7b6b; }
.text { color: #ce7b6b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ce7b6b; }

How salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ce7b6b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ce7b6b against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ce7b6b sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ce7b6b 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 salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #ce7b6b is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.