Dark salmon

#eeaa96

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. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #eeaa96, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#eeaa96

RGB238, 170, 150

HSL14, 72%, 76%

HSV14, 37%, 93%

CMYK0%, 29%, 37%, 7%

Lab75.53, 22.48, 20.25

XYZ55.14, 49.13, 35.43

Decimal15641238

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone1625 C

Shades of dark salmon

#e99177 #e47858 #df5f3a #d34a22 #b43f1d #953518 #772a13 #581f0e #391409 #1a0904

Tints of dark salmon

#efb19f #f1b9a8 #f2c0b1 #f4c7ba #f5cec3 #f7d6cc #f8ddd5 #fae4de #fbebe7 #fdf3f0

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#96daee Analogous#ee96ae Analogous#eed696 Triadic#96eeaa Triadic#aa96ee Split complementary#96eed6 Split complementary#96aeee

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, 29, 37, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #eeaa96 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 29 37 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 31 38 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 #eeaa96 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #eeaa96; }
.text { color: #eeaa96; }
.border { border: 2px solid #eeaa96; }

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 #eeaa96 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #eeaa96 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 #eeaa96 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 #eeaa96 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

Every value on this page for #eeaa96 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.