Light salmon

#ecad8a

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

Light salmon is a light orange with soft warmth. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Light salmon color values

Every conversion for #ecad8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecad8a

RGB236, 173, 138

HSL21, 72%, 73%

HSV21, 42%, 93%

CMYK0%, 27%, 42%, 7%

Lab75.8, 18.76, 27.04

XYZ54.12, 49.55, 30.76

Decimal15510922

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone472 C

Shades of light salmon

#e7986c #e2844f #de6f31 #cc5e21 #ae501c #904317 #733513 #55270e #381a09 #1a0c04

Tints of light salmon

#eeb494 #efbb9e #f1c2a8 #f3c9b3 #f4d1bd #f6d8c7 #f8dfd1 #f9e6db #fbede5 #fdf4f0

Colors that go with light salmon

Complementary#8ac9ec Analogous#ec8a98 Analogous#ecde8a Triadic#8aecad Triadic#ad8aec Split complementary#8aecde Split complementary#8a98ec

Light 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, 27, 42, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecad8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 27 42 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 29 43 13

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.

Light salmon in css

Copy #ecad8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecad8a; }
.text { color: #ecad8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecad8a; }

How light salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ecad8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecad8a against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ecad8a sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light 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 light salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ecad8a 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 light salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #ecad8a is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.