Salmon (color)

The flesh of the salmon fish is salmon-colored.

Salmon
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Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FA8072
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(250, 128, 114)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 45, 69, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(14°, 52%, 100%)
Source	X11^[1]^[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Salmon is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh.

The web color salmon is displayed at right.

The first recorded use of salmon as a color name in English was in 1776.^[3]

The actual color of salmon flesh varies from almost white to deep pink, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; salmon raised on fish farms are given artificial coloring in their food.^[4]

Variations of salmon 1
- Light salmon 1.1
- Salmon pink 1.2
- Dark salmon 1.3
See also 2
References 3

Variations of salmon

Light salmon

Light salmon
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Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFA07A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(255, 160, 122)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 45, 57, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(14°, 62%, 100%)
Source	X11^[1]^[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color light salmon is displayed at right. This is a color that resembles the color salmon, but is lighter, not to be confused with Dark Salmon, which resembles Salmon Pink but is darker than Salmon Pink and much darker than light salmon.

Salmon pink

Salmon pink
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Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FF91A4
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(255, 145, 164)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 54, 42, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(350°, 43%, 100%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the pinkish tone of salmon that is called salmon in Crayola crayons.

This color was introduced by Crayola in 1949. See the List of Crayola crayon colors.

Dark salmon

Dark salmon
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Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#E9967A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(233, 150, 122)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 36, 48, 9)
HSV (h, s, v)	(15°, 48%, 91%)
Source	X11^[1]^[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color dark salmon is displayed at the right.

This is a color that resembles the color salmon, but is darker. Like the web colors light salmon and salmon shown above, it is used in HTML and CSS.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, SVG color keywords
^ ^a ^b ^c W3C TR SVG 1.0, recognized color keyword names
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203; Color Sample of Salmon: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample A7
^ "Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition on the use of canthaxanthin in feedingstuffs for salmon and trout, laying hens, and other poultry." (

Shades of orange

Amber	Apricot	Atomic tangerine	Bittersweet	Brown	Burnt orange	Carrot orange	Champagne	Coral	Coffee

Dark salmon	Deep carrot orange	ECE/SAE Amber	Flame	Gamboge	Gold	Gold (metallic)	International orange	Lion	Mahogany

Marigold	Old gold	Orange	Orange (web)	Orange-red	Orange peel	Papaya whip	Peach	Peach-orange	Peach-yellow

Persian orange	Persimmon	Portland Orange	Princeton orange	Pumpkin	Rust	Safety orange	Salmon	Satin sheen gold	Sunset

Tangelo	Tangerine	Tawny	Tea rose	Tomato	Vermilion

A typical sample is shown for each name; however, a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

Shades of pink

Amaranth	Amaranth pink	Baker-Miller Pink	Brink pink	Carmine	Carnation pink	Cerise	Coral pink	Crimson	Cyclamen

Deep carmine	Deep pink	Fandango	Folly	French rose	Fuchsia	Hollywood cerise	Hot magenta	Hot pink	Lavender pink

Magenta	Mauve	Mexican pink	Mountbatten pink	Persian rose	Pink	Puce	Rose	Rose pink	Ruby

Salmon pink	Shocking pink	Thulian pink	Ultra pink

A typical sample is shown for each name; however, a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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Salmon (color)

Salmon (color)

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Variations of salmon

Light salmon

Salmon pink

Dark salmon

See also

References

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