Salmon

#ea7d70

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

Salmon is a mid red that reads grounded. 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.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #ea7d70, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ea7d70

RGB234, 125, 112

HSL6, 74%, 68%

HSV6, 52%, 92%

CMYK0%, 47%, 52%, 8%

Lab64.43, 40.68, 26.06

XYZ44.19, 33.33, 19.43

Decimal15367536

Web safe#ff6666

Pantone177 C

Shades of salmon

#e66454 #e24b39 #db3420 #c02e1c #a42718 #892014 #6d1a10 #52130c #360d08 #1b0604

Tints of salmon

#ec897d #ee9489 #f0a096 #f1aba3 #f3b7b0 #f5c3bc #f7cec9 #f9dad6 #fbe5e3 #fdf1ef

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#70ddea Analogous#ea70a0 Analogous#eaba70 Triadic#70ea7d Triadic#7d70ea Split complementary#70eaba Split complementary#70a0ea

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, 47, 52, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ea7d70 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 47 52 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 47 52 14

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Salmon in css

Copy #ea7d70 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ea7d70; }
.text { color: #ea7d70; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ea7d70; }

How salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ea7d70 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ea7d70 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ea7d70 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ea7d70 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 salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #ea7d70 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.