Dark salmon

#fda899

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

This is Dark salmon, a vivid red sitting at 9 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 #fda899, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fda899

RGB253, 168, 153

HSL9, 96%, 80%

HSV9, 40%, 99%

CMYK0%, 34%, 40%, 1%

Lab76.79, 29.57, 20.62

XYZ60.26, 51.19, 36.84

Decimal16623769

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone1625 C

Shades of dark salmon

#fc8974 #fc694f #fb4a2b #fa2a06 #d62404 #b11e03 #8c1703 #681102 #430b01 #1e0501

Tints of dark salmon

#fdafa1 #fdb6aa #fdbeb2 #fec5bb #feccc3 #fed3cc #fedad4 #fee2dd #fee9e5 #fff0ed

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#99eefd Analogous#fd99bc Analogous#fdda99 Triadic#99fda8 Triadic#a899fd Split complementary#99fdda Split complementary#99bcfd

Dark 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, 34, 40, 1.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fda899 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 34 40 1

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 35 41 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.

Dark salmon in css

Copy #fda899 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fda899; }
.text { color: #fda899; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fda899; }

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 #fda899 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fda899 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 #fda899 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 #fda899 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 #fda899 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.