Dark salmon

#ce9989

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

Dark salmon is a mid red that reads confident. 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.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #ce9989, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ce9989

RGB206, 153, 137

HSL14, 41%, 67%

HSV14, 33%, 81%

CMYK0%, 26%, 33%, 19%

Lab67.81, 17.66, 16.16

XYZ41.36, 37.71, 28.77

Decimal13539721

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#c58673 #bc735d #b06149 #9a5540 #844937 #6e3d2e #583024 #42241b #2c1812 #160c09

Tints of dark salmon

#d2a294 #d7ab9e #dbb4a9 #e0bdb3 #e4c7be #e8d0c8 #edd9d3 #f1e2dd #f5ebe8 #faf4f2

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#89bece Analogous#ce899b Analogous#cebc89 Triadic#89ce99 Triadic#9989ce Split complementary#89cebc Split complementary#899cce

Dark salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 26, 33, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ce9989 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 26 33 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 28 34 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.

Dark salmon in css

Copy #ce9989 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ce9989; }
.text { color: #ce9989; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ce9989; }

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 #ce9989 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ce9989 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 #ce9989 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 #ce9989 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 #ce9989 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.