Dark salmon

#dfa484

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

This is Dark salmon, a strong orange at 21 degrees. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #dfa484, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfa484

RGB223, 164, 132

HSL21, 59%, 70%

HSV21, 41%, 87%

CMYK0%, 26%, 41%, 13%

Lab72.16, 17.8, 25.16

XYZ47.87, 43.9, 27.78

Decimal14656644

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone472 C

Shades of dark salmon

#d8916a #d27e51 #cb6b37 #b35d2f #995028 #7f4221 #66351a #4c2714 #321a0d #180d06

Tints of dark salmon

#e2ac8f #e5b49a #e7bca5 #eac4b0 #edccba #f0d4c5 #f3dcd0 #f6e4db #f8ece6 #fbf5f1

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#84bfdf Analogous#df8492 Analogous#dfd184 Triadic#84dfa4 Triadic#a484df Split complementary#84dfd2 Split complementary#8491df

Dark salmon in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 26, 41, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfa484 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 26 41 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 28 42 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 #dfa484 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfa484; }
.text { color: #dfa484; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfa484; }

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 #dfa484 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfa484 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 #dfa484 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 #dfa484 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 #dfa484 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.