Salmon

#f57466

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

Salmon lands in the red band, mid and vivid. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #f57466, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f57466

RGB245, 116, 102

HSL6, 88%, 68%

HSV6, 58%, 96%

CMYK0%, 53%, 58%, 4%

Lab64.05, 48.37, 31.45

XYZ46.3, 32.86, 16.47

Decimal16086118

Web safe#ff6666

Pantone178 C

Shades of salmon

#f35948 #f13e2b #ed250f #cf200e #b11c0c #94170a #761208 #580e06 #3a0904 #1d0502

Tints of salmon

#f68074 #f78d81 #f8998f #f9a69c #f9b2aa #fabeb8 #fbcbc5 #fcd7d3 #fde3e1 #fef0ee

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#66e7f5 Analogous#f566a0 Analogous#f5bc66 Triadic#66f574 Triadic#7466f5 Split complementary#66f5bc Split complementary#66a0f5

Salmon in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 0, 53, 58, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f57466 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 53 58 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 53 57 10

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.

Salmon in css

Copy #f57466 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f57466; }
.text { color: #f57466; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f57466; }

How salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f57466 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f57466 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f57466 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f57466 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 salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #f57466 are worked out. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.