Salmon

#fc8a70

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

Salmon lands in the red band, light and vivid. 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.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #fc8a70, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fc8a70

RGB252, 138, 112

HSL11, 96%, 71%

HSV11, 56%, 99%

CMYK0%, 45%, 56%, 1%

Lab69.5, 40.82, 33.14

XYZ52.16, 40.04, 20.31

Decimal16550512

Web safe#ff9966

Pantone170 C

Shades of salmon

#fb6f4f #fb552f #fa3a0e #e22e05 #c12704 #a12103 #801a03 #5f1302 #3f0d01 #1e0601

Tints of salmon

#fc947d #fd9f89 #fda996 #fdb3a2 #fdbdaf #fec8bb #fed2c8 #fedcd4 #fee6e1 #fff1ee

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#70e2fc Analogous#fc709c Analogous#fcd070 Triadic#70fc8a Triadic#8a70fc Split complementary#70fcd0 Split complementary#709cfc

Salmon in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 0, 45, 56, 1.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fc8a70 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 45 56 1

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 45 56 7

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 #fc8a70 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fc8a70; }
.text { color: #fc8a70; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fc8a70; }

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 #fc8a70 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fc8a70 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 #fc8a70 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 #fc8a70 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 #fc8a70 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.