Dark salmon

#ee987f

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

This is Dark salmon, a strong red sitting at 14 degrees on the wheel. 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 #ee987f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ee987f

RGB238, 152, 127

HSL14, 77%, 72%

HSV14, 47%, 93%

CMYK0%, 36%, 47%, 7%

Lab70.99, 29.55, 26.59

XYZ50.32, 42.17, 25.57

Decimal15636607

Web safe#ff9966

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#ea8061 #e66844 #e25126 #cc431b #af3917 #913013 #74260f #561c0b #391308 #1b0904

Tints of dark salmon

#efa18a #f1aa95 #f2b3a1 #f4bcac #f5c5b7 #f7cec2 #f8d7ce #fae0d9 #fbe9e4 #fdf2ef

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#7fd5ee Analogous#ee7f9e Analogous#eecf7f Triadic#7fee98 Triadic#987fee Split complementary#7feed0 Split complementary#7f9dee

Dark salmon in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 0, 36, 47, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ee987f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 36 47 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 37 47 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 #ee987f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ee987f; }
.text { color: #ee987f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ee987f; }

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 #ee987f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ee987f 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 #ee987f 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 #ee987f 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 #ee987f 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.