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Salmon is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh. Actual salmon color varies from almost white to deep red, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; the salmon raised on fish farms are given artificial coloring in their food.
Salmon (#FA8072)
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Light Salmon Pink
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| Hex triplet | #FF9999 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 153, 153) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (0°, 40%, 100%) |
| Source | Unsourced | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Light Salmon Pink is a light pink color that resembles the color salmon. The name is derived from the flesh color of the pink salmon.
The nutrient that imparts the pink flesh color is astaxanthin, which salmon ingest when they feed on other marine organisms, such as krill and small shrimp.
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Salmon Pink
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| Hex triplet | #FF91A4 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 145, 164) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (14°, 62%, 100%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color salmon pink is displayed at right.
This is the color called salmon in Crayola crayons. This color was introduced by Crayola in 1949. See the List of Crayola crayon colors.
Light Salmon
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| Hex triplet | #FFA07A | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 160, 122) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (14°, 62%, 100%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The web color light salmon is displayed at right.
This color is used in the paper of some economic newspapers like the Financial Times. Hence the economic press is sometimes termed the salmon press as opposed to regular general newspapers published on off-white colored newsprint.
Medium Salmon
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| Hex triplet | #FF8C69 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 140, 105) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (14°, 59%, 100%) |
| Source | Unsourced | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color medium salmon is shown at right.
Salmon
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| Hex triplet | #FA8072 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (250, 128, 114) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (14°, 52%, 100%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The web color salmon is displayed at right.
Dark Salmon
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| Hex triplet | #E9967A | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (233, 150, 122) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (15°, 48%, 91%) |
| Source | X11 | |
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The web color dark salmon 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.
Artistic representations of the color salmon
 Salad of ham and smoked salmon. |
Shades of salmon color comparison chart
- Light Salmon Pink (Hex: #FF9999) (RGB: 255, 153, 153)
- Salmon Pink (Crayola "Salmon") (Hex: #FF91A4) (RGB: 255, 145, 164)
- Light Salmon (web color) (Hex: #FFA07A) (RGB: 255, 160, 122)
- Medium Salmon (Hex: #FF8C69) (RGB: 255, 140, 105)
- Salmon (web color) (Hex: #FA8072) (RGB: 250, 128, 114)
- Dark Salmon (web color) (Hex: #E9967A) (RGB: 233, 150, 122)
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