Light salmon

#ffa085

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

Light 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.

Light salmon color values

Every conversion for #ffa085, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ffa085

RGB255, 160, 133

HSL13, 100%, 76%

HSV13, 48%, 100%

CMYK0%, 37%, 48%, 0%

Lab74.88, 32.46, 28.89

XYZ58.04, 48.1, 28.41

Decimal16752773

Web safe#ff9999

Pantone1625 C

Shades of light salmon

#ff8461 #ff683e #ff4d1a #f53600 #d12e00 #ae2600 #8a1f00 #661700 #420f00 #1f0700

Tints of light salmon

#ffa88f #ffb09a #ffb8a4 #ffc0af #ffc9b9 #ffd1c3 #ffd9ce #ffe1d8 #ffe9e3 #fff1ed

Colors that go with light salmon

Complementary#85e4ff Analogous#ff85a7 Analogous#ffdd85 Triadic#85ffa0 Triadic#a085ff Split complementary#85ffdd Split complementary#85a7ff

Light 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, 37, 48, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ffa085 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 37 48 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 38 48 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.

Light salmon in css

Copy #ffa085 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ffa085; }
.text { color: #ffa085; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ffa085; }

How light salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ffa085 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ffa085 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ffa085 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light 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 light salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ffa085 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 light salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ffa085 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.