Salmon

#ed9285

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

Salmon lands in the red band, light and strong. 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.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #ed9285, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ed9285

RGB237, 146, 133

HSL7, 74%, 73%

HSV7, 44%, 93%

CMYK0%, 38%, 44%, 7%

Lab69.65, 32.92, 21.48

XYZ49.44, 40.26, 27.35

Decimal15569541

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone170 C

Shades of salmon

#e97867 #e45d4a #e0432c #cc341e #af2c1a #912515 #731d11 #56160d #380e08 #1b0704

Tints of salmon

#ef9c90 #f0a59a #f2afa5 #f3b8b0 #f5c2ba #f6cbc5 #f8d5d0 #fadeda #fbe8e5 #fdf1ef

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#85e0ed Analogous#ed85ac Analogous#edc685 Triadic#85ed92 Triadic#9285ed Split complementary#85edc6 Split complementary#85aced

Salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 38, 44, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ed9285 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 38 44 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 39 44 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.

Salmon in css

Copy #ed9285 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ed9285; }
.text { color: #ed9285; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ed9285; }

How salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ed9285 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ed9285 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 #ed9285 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 #ed9285 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

The figures for #ed9285 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.