Dark Salmon color (#E9967A)
Dark Salmon is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword darksalmon
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #E9967A, which is rgb(233, 150, 122) in RGB.
It is a light, moderately saturated warm color with a hue angle of 15° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 75% in OKLCH. On a dark salmon background, black text gives the higher contrast at 9.10:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Dark Salmon color codes
| CSS name | darksalmon |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #E9967A |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #E9967AFF |
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| RGB | rgb(233, 150, 122) |
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| HSL | hsl(15, 72%, 70%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(15, 48%, 91%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(75.1% 0.1082 39.4) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 35.6%, 47.6%, 8.6%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for dark salmon used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of dark salmon
Tints mix dark salmon with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
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Colors that go with dark salmon
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
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Split-Complementary
Dark Salmon with color blindness
Approximately how dark salmon appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using dark salmon in CSS
.element {
color: darksalmon;
background-color: #e9967a;
border-color: rgb(233 150 122 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(75.1% 0.1082 39.4);
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