Dark salmon

#e79a8a

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

Dark salmon is a light red that reads relaxed. 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 #e79a8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e79a8a

RGB231, 154, 138

HSL10, 66%, 72%

HSV10, 40%, 91%

CMYK0%, 33%, 40%, 9%

Lab70.83, 26.93, 20.21

XYZ49.1, 41.94, 29.55

Decimal15178378

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#e1826e #db6a52 #d65136 #c24228 #a63922 #8a2f1c #6e2516 #521c11 #35120b #190905

Tints of dark salmon

#e9a394 #ebac9e #edb4a9 #efbdb3 #f1c6bd #f4cfc7 #f6d8d2 #f8e1dc #fae9e6 #fcf2f0

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#8ad7e7 Analogous#e78aa9 Analogous#e7c88a Triadic#8ae79a Triadic#9a8ae7 Split complementary#8ae7c8 Split complementary#8aa9e7

Dark salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 33, 40, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e79a8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 33 40 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 34 41 15

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 #e79a8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e79a8a; }
.text { color: #e79a8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e79a8a; }

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 #e79a8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e79a8a 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 #e79a8a 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 #e79a8a 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 #e79a8a are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.