CSS named colour

Salmon

#fa8072

A CSS named colour: salmon is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(250 128 114)
HSL: 6°, 93%, 71%
OKLCh: 73.5% 0.152 28.1

Salmon in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#fa8072`
RGB	`rgb(250 128 114)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(250, 128, 114)`
RGB percent	`rgb(98.04% 50.2% 44.71%)`
HSL	`hsl(6.2 93.2% 71.4%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(6.2, 93.2%, 71.4%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(6.2, 54.4%, 98%)`
HWB	`hwb(6.2 44.7% 2%)`
Nearest name	`salmon`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 48.8%, 54.4%, 2%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(73.5% 0.15151 28.06)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(73.5% 0.1337 0.07127)`
CIE LCh	`lch(67.847% 55.533 32.896)`
CIE Lab	`lab(67.847% 46.629 30.161)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.9185 0.5275 0.4675)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.8237 0.5069 0.4156)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.956 0.2159 0.1683)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.5018 0.3698 0.2042)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.98, 0.502, 0.447)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.956, 0.216, 0.168)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.98, 0.502, 0.447, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.956, 0.216, 0.168, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(250, 128, 114)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.98, 0.502, 0.447)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.956, 0.216, 0.168)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.98, 0.502, 0.447, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.98, 0.502, 0.447, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.98, 0.502, 0.447)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.98, 0.502, 0.447, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.956, 0.216, 0.168)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(0.98f, 0.502f, 0.447f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(250, 128, 114, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.956f, 0.2159f, 0.1683f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(250, 128, 114, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.98, 0.502, 0.447, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFFA8072)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(250, 128, 114)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.98, green: 0.502, blue: 0.447)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.98, green: 0.502, blue: 0.447, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xFA8072`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFFA8072`
Array 0–1	`[0.98, 0.502, 0.447]`
Array 0–255	`[250, 128, 114]`
Decimal integer	`16416882`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Salmon on white	2.50:1	Fail	Lc 49	Large headings only
Salmon on black	8.40:1	AAA	Lc 53	Large headings only

Salmon text on a white background

Salmon text on a black background

White text on Salmon

Black text on Salmon

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#fff0eb
100#ffe2db
200#ffcac0
300#ffa799
400#f88274
500#d86155
600#b8483e
700#9a332b
800#7f211b
900#69120f
950#440000

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#fe9689
Tint 2#ffaca1
Tint 3#ffc1b8
Tint 4#ffd6cf
Tint 5#ffebe7
Shade 1#c46358
Shade 2#91483f
Shade 3#612e28
Shade 4#351612
Shade 5#0e0303

Colours that work with Salmon

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#00c1d9
#5dc370
#80a4ff
#f37da9
#ef8e38

Closest CSS names

salmonexact match
lightcoralΔEok 0.025
coralΔEok 0.038
darksalmonΔEok 0.053
tomatoΔEok 0.060
lightsalmonΔEok 0.073