Dark salmon

#e89a8a

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 10 degrees on the wheel. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #e89a8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e89a8a

RGB232, 154, 138

HSL10, 67%, 73%

HSV10, 41%, 91%

CMYK0%, 34%, 41%, 9%

Lab70.94, 27.32, 20.39

XYZ49.42, 42.1, 29.57

Decimal15243914

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#e2826e #dd6951 #d75135 #c44126 #a73821 #8b2e1b #6f2516 #521b10 #36120b #1a0905

Tints of dark salmon

#eaa394 #ecac9e #eeb4a9 #f0bdb3 #f2c6bd #f4cfc7 #f6d8d1 #f8e0dc #fae9e6 #fcf2f0

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#8ad8e8 Analogous#e88aa9 Analogous#e8c98a Triadic#8ae89a Triadic#9a8ae8 Split complementary#8ae8c9 Split complementary#8aa9e8

Dark salmon in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 34, 41, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e89a8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 34 41 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 35 42 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 #e89a8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e89a8a; }
.text { color: #e89a8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e89a8a; }

How dark salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Dark salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #e89a8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e89a8a 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 #e89a8a 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 #e89a8a 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 #e89a8a 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.