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Light Salmon

Hex #FFA07A, rgb(255 160 122). An orange CSS named color.

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About Light Salmon

Light Salmon is a light saturated orange with the hex code #FFA07A. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 160 green and 122 blue; in HSL its hue is 17°, with 100% saturation and 74% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 79.4%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lightsalmon" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.99:1 and against black 10.56:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Light 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 Light 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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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Light Salmon textSmall text on white

On white1.99:1

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

APCA Lc 38

Light Salmon textSmall text on black

On black10.56:1

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

APCA Lc -64

Black text on Light Salmon (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#B9AC77
  • Deuteranopia#CFC079
  • Tritanopia#FF9096
  • Protanomaly#CFAB77
  • Deuteranomaly#DAB879
  • Tritanomaly#FF9A88
  • Achromatopsia#B8B8B8

Colors similar to Light Salmon

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Light Salmon in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.light-salmon {
  color: lightsalmon; /* #FFA07A */
  background-color: rgb(255 160 122);
  border-color: oklch(79.4% 0.125 42.4);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-light-salmon-500, text-light-salmon-700... */
@theme {
  --color-light-salmon-50: #FFF9F6;
  --color-light-salmon-100: #FFE7DD;
  --color-light-salmon-200: #FFCCB8;
  --color-light-salmon-300: #FFA07A;
  --color-light-salmon-400: #F6651C;
  --color-light-salmon-500: #D85200;
  --color-light-salmon-600: #BA4500;
  --color-light-salmon-700: #973700;
  --color-light-salmon-800: #7A2B00;
  --color-light-salmon-900: #652200;
  --color-light-salmon-950: #2B0900;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FFA07A] text-[#000000]">…</div>