Dark salmon

#efaa96

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 13 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 #efaa96, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#efaa96

RGB239, 170, 150

HSL13, 74%, 76%

HSV13, 37%, 94%

CMYK0%, 29%, 37%, 6%

Lab75.64, 22.86, 20.41

XYZ55.48, 49.3, 35.45

Decimal15706774

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone1625 C

Shades of dark salmon

#ea9177 #e67858 #e15e39 #d54920 #b63e1c #973417 #782912 #591e0e #3a1409 #1b0904

Tints of dark salmon

#f0b19f #f2b8a8 #f3c0b1 #f4c7ba #f6cec3 #f7d5cc #f9ddd5 #fae4de #fbebe7 #fdf2f0

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#96dbef Analogous#ef96ae Analogous#efd696 Triadic#96efaa Triadic#aa96ef Split complementary#96efd7 Split complementary#96aeef

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, 6.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #efaa96 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 29 37 6

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 31 38 12

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 #efaa96 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #efaa96; }
.text { color: #efaa96; }
.border { border: 2px solid #efaa96; }

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 #efaa96 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #efaa96 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 #efaa96 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 #efaa96 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 #efaa96 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. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.