Dark salmon

#ed9688

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

Dark salmon is a light red that reads open. 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 #ed9688, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ed9688

RGB237, 150, 136

HSL8, 74%, 73%

HSV8, 43%, 93%

CMYK0%, 37%, 43%, 7%

Lab70.59, 31.13, 21.1

XYZ50.28, 41.59, 28.67

Decimal15570568

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#e97c6a #e4624d #e0472f #cd371f #af2f1b #922716 #741f12 #56170d #380f09 #1b0704

Tints of dark salmon

#ef9f92 #f0a89d #f2b1a7 #f3bbb1 #f5c4bc #f6cdc6 #f8d6d0 #fadfdb #fbe8e5 #fdf1ef

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#88dfed Analogous#ed88ac Analogous#edc888 Triadic#88ed96 Triadic#9688ed Split complementary#88edc8 Split complementary#88aded

Dark 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, 37, 43, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ed9688 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 37 43 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 38 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.

Dark salmon in css

Copy #ed9688 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ed9688; }
.text { color: #ed9688; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ed9688; }

How dark salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ed9688 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ed9688 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 #ed9688 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 #ed9688 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

The figures for #ed9688 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.