Salmon color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around salmon. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Salmon is #FA8072, light vivid red. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and salmon color palettes to copy.

Salmon hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#FA8072

HEX: #FA8072
RGB: rgb(250, 128, 114)
HSL: hsl(6, 93%, 71%)
OKLCH: oklch(73.5% 0.152 28.1)
On white: 2.50:1
On black: 8.40:1

Shades of salmon

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Salmon color values

#FA8072rgb(250, 128, 114)

Color spaces of #fa8072
RGB	250	128	114
HSL	6°	93%	71%
HSV	6°	54%	98%
CMYK	0.00	0.49	0.54	0.02
XYZ	50.1846	36.9828	20.4119
Yxy	36.9828	0.4665	0.3438
CIE-Lab	67.2641	45.2265	29.0943
Hunter Lab	60.8135	40.8786	22.6689
OKLCH	73.5%	0.152	28.1°

#FA8072 is 250 red, 128 green and 114 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #FF9966.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11111010	10000000	01110010
Octal	372	200	162
Decimal	250	128	114
Hex	FA	80	72

#fa8072 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#FA8072
#E17366
#C8665B
#AF594F
#964C44
#7D4039
#64332D
#4B2622
#311916
#180C0B
#000000

#fa8072 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#FA8072
#FA8C80
#FB998E
#FBA69C
#FCB2AA
#FCBFB8
#FDCCC6
#FDD8D4
#FEE5E2
#FEF2F0
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red50.8%
Green26.0%
Blue23.2%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#FA8072
#00BFD3

Triadic

#FA8072
#5DC370
#85A5FF

Analogous

#FA8072
#EF8E38
#F37DA9

Monochromatic

#7E0206
#A7342C
#D05A4F
#FA8072
#FFBCB3
#FFF4F2
#FFF6F5

#fa8072 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 8.40:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.50:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #fa8072

color: #fa8072;
background-color: #fa8072;
border: 3px solid #fa8072;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #fa8072;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(250, 128, 114, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(73.5% 0.152 28.1);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Salmon on white measures 2.50:1 and on black 8.40:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.66:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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