Salmon

#ff8978

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 #ff8978, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ff8978

RGB255, 137, 120

HSL8, 100%, 74%

HSV8, 53%, 100%

CMYK0%, 46%, 53%, 0%

Lab69.83, 43.07, 29.28

XYZ53.58, 40.51, 22.76

Decimal16746872

Web safe#ff9966

Pantone170 C

Shades of salmon

#ff6b56 #ff4d33 #ff2f11 #ed1e00 #cb1a00 #a81500 #861100 #630d00 #410800 #1f0400

Tints of salmon

#ff9384 #ff9d8f #ffa89b #ffb2a7 #ffbcb3 #ffc6be #ffd1ca #ffdbd6 #ffe5e1 #ffefed

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#78eeff Analogous#ff78ab Analogous#ffcc78 Triadic#78ff89 Triadic#8978ff Split complementary#78ffcd Split complementary#78abff

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, 53, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ff8978 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 46 53 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 46 53 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Salmon in css

Copy #ff8978 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ff8978; }
.text { color: #ff8978; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ff8978; }

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 #ff8978 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ff8978 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ff8978 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ff8978 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 #ff8978 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.