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

Eleven 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.

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.

Related colors:red, crimson, maroon, burgundy, wine. See every shade on the colors index.