Dark salmon

#da9986

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

This is Dark salmon, a soft red sitting at 14 degrees on the wheel. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #da9986, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#da9986

RGB218, 153, 134

HSL14, 53%, 69%

HSV14, 39%, 85%

CMYK0%, 30%, 39%, 15%

Lab69.05, 21.98, 19.74

XYZ44.61, 39.41, 27.81

Decimal14326150

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone486 C

Shades of dark salmon

#d2846d #cb7055 #c35b3c #ab4f34 #93442d #7a3825 #612d1e #492216 #30160f #170b07

Tints of dark salmon

#dda291 #e1ab9b #e4b4a6 #e7bdb1 #eac6bc #eecfc6 #f1d8d1 #f4e1dc #f8eae7 #fbf3f1

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#86c7da Analogous#da869d Analogous#dac386 Triadic#86da99 Triadic#9986da Split complementary#86dac3 Split complementary#869dda

Dark salmon in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 30, 39, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #da9986 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 30 39 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 32 40 21

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Dark salmon in css

Copy #da9986 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #da9986; }
.text { color: #da9986; }
.border { border: 2px solid #da9986; }

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 #da9986 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #da9986 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #da9986 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #da9986 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

Here is how the numbers for #da9986 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.