Light salmon

#ffb8a6

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

This is Light salmon, a vivid red sitting at 12 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.

Light salmon color values

Every conversion for #ffb8a6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ffb8a6

RGB255, 184, 166

HSL12, 100%, 83%

HSV12, 35%, 100%

CMYK0%, 28%, 35%, 0%

Lab80.9, 23.43, 19.33

XYZ65.26, 58.29, 43.89

Decimal16758950

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone169 C

Shades of light salmon

#ff997f #ff7a58 #ff5b31 #ff3b0a #e22e00 #bb2600 #941e00 #6d1600 #460e00 #1f0600

Tints of light salmon

#ffbead #ffc9bb #ffcfc2 #ffd4ca #ffdad1 #ffe0d8 #ffe5df #ffebe6 #fff1ed

Colors that go with light salmon

Complementary#a6edff Analogous#ffa6c0 Analogous#ffe4a6 Triadic#a6ffb8 Triadic#b8a6ff Split complementary#a6ffe4 Split complementary#a6c0ff

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, 28, 35, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ffb8a6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 28 35 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 30 36 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 #ffb8a6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ffb8a6; }
.text { color: #ffb8a6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ffb8a6; }

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 #ffb8a6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ffb8a6 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 #ffb8a6 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 #ffb8a6 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

Here is how the numbers for #ffb8a6 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.