Dark salmon

#dda89c

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for dark salmon, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Dark salmon lands in the red band, light and soft. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Dark salmon color values

Every conversion for #dda89c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dda89c

RGB221, 168, 156

HSL11, 49%, 74%

HSV11, 29%, 87%

CMYK0%, 24%, 29%, 13%

Lab73.4, 17.8, 13.75

XYZ49.82, 45.78, 37.66

Decimal14526620

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone5015 C

Shades of dark salmon

#d49182 #cb7b68 #c2644f #b1523d #984634 #7e3b2b #642f22 #4a231a #311711 #170b08

Tints of dark salmon

#e0b0a5 #e3b7ad #e6bfb6 #e9c6be #eccec7 #efd5cf #f2ddd8 #f5e4e1 #f7ece9 #faf3f2

Colors that go with dark salmon

Complementary#9cd1dd Analogous#dd9cb1 Analogous#ddc99c Triadic#9cdda8 Triadic#a89cdd Split complementary#9cddc9 Split complementary#9cb1dd

Dark salmon in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 24, 29, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dda89c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 24 29 13

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 26 31 19

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Dark salmon in css

Copy #dda89c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dda89c; }
.text { color: #dda89c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dda89c; }

How dark salmon looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark salmon and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #dda89c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dda89c against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark salmon on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dda89c sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark salmon? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark salmon into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dda89c and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from dark salmon, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #dda89c are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.