Dark salmon

#fb9271

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

Dark salmon is a light red that reads open. 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 #fb9271, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fb9271

RGB251, 146, 113

HSL14, 95%, 71%

HSV14, 55%, 98%

CMYK0%, 42%, 55%, 2%

Lab71.05, 36.44, 34.56

XYZ53.04, 42.26, 20.98

Decimal16487025

Web safe#ff9966

Pantone1635 C

Shades of dark salmon

#fa7951 #f96030 #f84710 #e03a06 #c03205 #9f2a04 #7f2104 #5f1903 #3e1002 #1e0801

Tints of dark salmon

#fb9c7d #fca58a #fcaf96 #fcb8a3 #fdc2af #fdcbbc #fdd5c8 #fedfd5 #fee8e1 #fff2ee

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#71dafb Analogous#fb7195 Analogous#fbd771 Triadic#71fb92 Triadic#9271fb Split complementary#71fbd7 Split complementary#7195fb

Dark 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, 42, 55, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fb9271 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 42 55 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 43 55 8

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 #fb9271 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fb9271; }
.text { color: #fb9271; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fb9271; }

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 #fb9271 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fb9271 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 #fb9271 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 #fb9271 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 #fb9271 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.