Salmon

#ce7f6f

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

Salmon lands in the red band, mid and soft. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #ce7f6f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ce7f6f

RGB206, 127, 111

HSL10, 49%, 62%

HSV10, 46%, 81%

CMYK0%, 38%, 46%, 19%

Lab61.18, 28.82, 21.63

XYZ35.91, 29.45, 18.83

Decimal13533039

Web safe#cc6666

Pantone694 C

Shades of salmon

#c76c5a #bf5944 #ac4e3b #974433 #823b2c #6c3125 #57271e #421e16 #2c140f #170a08

Tints of salmon

#d28b7c #d79689 #dba296 #e0ada3 #e4b9b0 #e9c5bd #edd0ca #f2dcd8 #f6e8e5 #faf3f2

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#6fbece Analogous#ce6f8e Analogous#ceaf6f Triadic#6fce7f Triadic#7f6fce Split complementary#6fceaf Split complementary#6f8ece

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, 38, 46, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ce7f6f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 38 46 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 39 46 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 #ce7f6f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ce7f6f; }
.text { color: #ce7f6f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ce7f6f; }

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 #ce7f6f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ce7f6f 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 #ce7f6f 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 #ce7f6f 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

The figures for #ce7f6f come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.