Light salmon

#ecb8a4

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

Light salmon sits in the orange range, light and strong. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Light salmon color values

Every conversion for #ecb8a4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecb8a4

RGB236, 184, 164

HSL17, 65%, 78%

HSV17, 31%, 93%

CMYK0%, 22%, 31%, 7%

Lab78.92, 16.0, 17.36

XYZ58.43, 54.79, 42.62

Decimal15513764

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone487 C

Shades of light salmon

#e6a085 #df8867 #d97048 #d1592c #b24c25 #943f1f #753218 #562512 #38180c #190b05

Tints of light salmon

#eebeac #efc4b3 #f1cabb #f2d0c2 #f4d6ca #f6dcd2 #f7e2d9 #f9e8e1 #faeee9 #fcf3f0

Colors that go with light salmon

Complementary#a4d8ec Analogous#eca4b4 Analogous#ecdca4 Triadic#a4ecb8 Triadic#b8a4ec Split complementary#a4ecdc Split complementary#a4b4ec

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, 22, 31, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecb8a4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 22 31 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 24 33 13

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.

Light salmon in css

Copy #ecb8a4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecb8a4; }
.text { color: #ecb8a4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecb8a4; }

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 #ecb8a4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecb8a4 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 #ecb8a4 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 #ecb8a4 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 #ecb8a4 is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.