Salmon

#da775e

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

Salmon is a mid red that reads grounded. 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 #da775e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#da775e

RGB218, 119, 94

HSL12, 63%, 61%

HSV12, 57%, 85%

CMYK0%, 45%, 57%, 15%

Lab60.7, 36.22, 30.84

XYZ37.53, 28.91, 14.19

Decimal14317406

Web safe#cc6666

Pantone170 C

Shades of salmon

#d56447 #cf5030 #b9472b #a23e25 #8b3620 #742d1b #5e2415 #471b10 #30120b #190a06

Tints of salmon

#dd836d #e1907b #e49c8a #e7a899 #ebb5a7 #eec1b6 #f2cec5 #f5dad3 #f8e6e2 #fcf3f0

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#5ec1da Analogous#da5e83 Analogous#dab55e Triadic#5eda77 Triadic#775eda Split complementary#5edab5 Split complementary#5e83da

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, 45, 57, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #da775e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 45 57 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 45 56 21

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 #da775e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #da775e; }
.text { color: #da775e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #da775e; }

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 #da775e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #da775e 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 #da775e 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 #da775e 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

Here is how the numbers for #da775e are worked out. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.