Dark salmon

#e49385

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 red sitting at 9 degrees on the wheel. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. 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 #e49385, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e49385

RGB228, 147, 133

HSL9, 64%, 71%

HSV9, 42%, 89%

CMYK0%, 36%, 42%, 11%

Lab68.79, 28.96, 20.12

XYZ46.66, 39.05, 27.27

Decimal14979973

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#de7b6a #d8634f #d24b34 #bb3f29 #a03623 #852d1d #6a2418 #4f1b12 #34120c #190806

Tints of dark salmon

#e69d90 #e9a69a #ebb0a5 #eeb9b0 #f0c3bb #f2ccc5 #f5d6d0 #f7dfdb #f9e9e6 #fcf2f0

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#85d6e4 Analogous#e485a7 Analogous#e4c285 Triadic#85e493 Triadic#9385e4 Split complementary#85e4c3 Split complementary#85a6e4

Dark salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 36, 42, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e49385 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 36 42 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 37 43 17

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 #e49385 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e49385; }
.text { color: #e49385; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e49385; }

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 #e49385 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e49385 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 #e49385 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 #e49385 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.

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How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #e49385 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.