Light salmon

#f2bbab

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

Light salmon lands in the red band, light and strong. 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.

Light salmon color values

Every conversion for #f2bbab, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f2bbab

RGB242, 187, 171

HSL14, 73%, 81%

HSV14, 29%, 95%

CMYK0%, 23%, 29%, 5%

Lab80.38, 17.59, 15.73

XYZ61.74, 57.36, 46.35

Decimal15907755

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone169 C

Shades of light salmon

#eda08a #e88569 #e36b48 #de5027 #c0421e #9f3719 #7e2b13 #5d200e #3c1509 #1a0904

Tints of light salmon

#f3c1b2 #f4c6b9 #f5ccc0 #f6d1c6 #f7d7cd #f8dcd4 #f9e2db #fae7e2 #fcede9 #fdf2f0

Colors that go with light salmon

Complementary#abe2f2 Analogous#f2abbe Analogous#f2dfab Triadic#abf2bb Triadic#bbabf2 Split complementary#abf2df Split complementary#abbef2

Light salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 23, 29, 5.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f2bbab on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 23 29 5

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 25 31 11

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light salmon in css

Copy #f2bbab straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f2bbab; }
.text { color: #f2bbab; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f2bbab; }

How light salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f2bbab against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f2bbab against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f2bbab sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light salmon? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f2bbab 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 light salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #f2bbab come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.