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Dark Salmon

Hex #E9967A, rgb(233 150 122). An orange CSS named color.

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About Dark Salmon

Dark Salmon is a light moderately saturated orange with the hex code #E9967A. In RGB it is made of 233 red, 150 green and 122 blue; in HSL its hue is 15°, with 72% saturation and 70% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 75.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darksalmon" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.31:1 and against black 9.11:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Dark Salmon mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Dark Salmon 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Dark Salmon

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Dark Salmon with white and black. The readable text color on Dark Salmon is black.

Dark Salmon textSmall text on white

On white2.31:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 45

Dark Salmon textSmall text on black

On black9.11:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -57

Black text on Dark Salmon (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Dark Salmon appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#ABA078
  • Deuteranopia#BEB279
  • Tritanopia#FB898F
  • Protanomaly#BF9F78
  • Deuteranomaly#C8AB79
  • Tritanomaly#F09184
  • Achromatopsia#ABABAB

Colors similar to Dark Salmon

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Salmon in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.dark-salmon {
  color: darksalmon; /* #E9967A */
  background-color: rgb(233 150 122);
  border-color: oklch(75.1% 0.108 39.4);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-salmon-500, text-dark-salmon-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-salmon-50: #FFF8F6;
  --color-dark-salmon-100: #FDECE6;
  --color-dark-salmon-200: #F9D9CF;
  --color-dark-salmon-300: #F4BCAA;
  --color-dark-salmon-400: #E9967A;
  --color-dark-salmon-500: #D67757;
  --color-dark-salmon-600: #BB6243;
  --color-dark-salmon-700: #974C32;
  --color-dark-salmon-800: #783D28;
  --color-dark-salmon-900: #603121;
  --color-dark-salmon-950: #290C04;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#E9967A] text-[#000000]">…</div>