Salmon

#e08073

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

This is Salmon, a strong red sitting at 7 degrees on the wheel. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Salmon color values

Every conversion for #e08073, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e08073

RGB224, 128, 115

HSL7, 64%, 66%

HSV7, 49%, 88%

CMYK0%, 43%, 49%, 12%

Lab63.77, 35.64, 23.27

XYZ41.55, 32.52, 20.31

Decimal14712947

Web safe#cc9966

Pantone177 C

Shades of salmon

#da695a #d55241 #ca3f2d #b13727 #973022 #7e281c #652016 #4c1811 #32100b #190806

Tints of salmon

#e38b80 #e6978c #e8a299 #ebada5 #eeb9b2 #f1c4be #f3d0cb #f6dbd7 #f9e6e4 #fcf2f0

Colors that go with salmon

Complementary#73d3e0 Analogous#e0739c Analogous#e0b673 Triadic#73e080 Triadic#8073e0 Split complementary#73e0b7 Split complementary#739ce0

Salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 43, 49, 12.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e08073 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 43 49 12

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 49 18

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.

Salmon in css

Copy #e08073 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e08073; }
.text { color: #e08073; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e08073; }

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 #e08073 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e08073 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 #e08073 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 #e08073 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 #e08073 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.