Salmon

Hex #FA8072, rgb(250 128 114). A red CSS named color.

Salmon#FA8072

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About Salmon

Salmon is a light saturated red with the hex code #FA8072. In RGB it is made of 250 red, 128 green and 114 blue; in HSL its hue is 6°, with 93% saturation and 71% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 73.5%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "salmon" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.50:1 and against black 8.40:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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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 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 Salmon with white and black. The readable text color on Salmon is black.

Salmon textSmall text on white

On white2.50:1

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

APCA Lc 49

Salmon textSmall text on black

On black8.40:1

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

APCA Lc -53

Black text on Salmon (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#9D9470
Deuteranopia#BBAE70
Tritanopia#FF6C7D
Protanomaly#BD9270
Deuteranomaly#CAA370
Tritanomaly#FF7877
Achromatopsia#A4A4A4

Colors similar to Salmon

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Salmon in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.salmon {
  color: salmon; /* #FA8072 */
  background-color: rgb(250 128 114);
  border-color: oklch(73.5% 0.152 28.1);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-salmon-500, text-salmon-700... */
@theme {
  --color-salmon-50: #FFF8F7;
  --color-salmon-100: #FFEAE6;
  --color-salmon-200: #FFD4CD;
  --color-salmon-300: #FFB1A6;
  --color-salmon-400: #FA8072;
  --color-salmon-500: #E95B4F;
  --color-salmon-600: #CD463C;
  --color-salmon-700: #A7352C;
  --color-salmon-800: #852B24;
  --color-salmon-900: #6B231D;
  --color-salmon-950: #2F0403;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FA8072] text-[#000000]">…</div>