Dark salmon

#dd8f77

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 balanced. 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 #dd8f77, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dd8f77

RGB221, 143, 119

HSL14, 60%, 67%

HSV14, 46%, 87%

CMYK0%, 35%, 46%, 13%

Lab66.79, 26.92, 25.01

XYZ42.97, 36.35, 22.2

Decimal14520183

Web safe#cc9966

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#d77b5e #d16645 #c65431 #ad4a2b #943f25 #7b351f #632a19 #4a2012 #31150c #180a06

Tints of dark salmon

#e09983 #e3a38f #e6ad9c #e9b7a8 #ecc1b4 #efcbc0 #f2d5cc #f5dfd8 #f8e9e5 #fbf3f1

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#77c5dd Analogous#dd7792 Analogous#ddc277 Triadic#77dd8f Triadic#8f77dd Split complementary#77ddc2 Split complementary#7792dd

Dark 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, 35, 46, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dd8f77 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 35 46 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 36 46 19

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 #dd8f77 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dd8f77; }
.text { color: #dd8f77; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dd8f77; }

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 #dd8f77 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dd8f77 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 #dd8f77 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 #dd8f77 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

Here is how the numbers for #dd8f77 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.