Salmon

#fe8a70

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

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.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #fe8a70, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fe8a70

RGB254, 138, 112

HSL11, 99%, 72%

HSV11, 56%, 100%

CMYK0%, 46%, 56%, 0%

Lab69.77, 41.57, 33.54

XYZ52.89, 40.42, 20.34

Decimal16681584

Web safe#ff9966

Pantone170 C

Shades of salmon

#fe6f4f #fe532d #fd380c #e62b02 #c52501 #a41f01 #821901 #611201 #400c00 #1e0600

Tints of salmon

#fe947d #fe9e89 #fea996 #feb3a2 #febdaf #ffc7bb #ffd2c8 #ffdcd4 #ffe6e1 #fff0ed

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#70e4fe Analogous#fe709d Analogous#fed170 Triadic#70fe8a Triadic#8a70fe Split complementary#70fed1 Split complementary#709dfe

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, 46, 56, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fe8a70 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 46 56 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 46 56 6

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 #fe8a70 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fe8a70; }
.text { color: #fe8a70; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fe8a70; }

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 #fe8a70 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fe8a70 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 #fe8a70 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 #fe8a70 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

The figures for #fe8a70 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.