Salmon (color)

This box shows the color salmon.

Salmon (pronounced sa-mon, as the l is silent) is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh.

The first recorded use of salmon as a color name in English was in 1776.

Meaning of salmon

• The color salmon is know to provide good health because salmon contains Omega-3 fatty acids, which are good for you.

• The color pale salmon (shown below) represents finance because it is used as the color of the paper on which some economic newspapers like the Financial Times are printed (it is also the color of logo of the Financial Times website). Hence the economic press is sometimes termed the salmon press as opposed to regular general newspapers published on off-white colored newsprint.

Tones of salmon color comparison chart

Name	Color	HEX Code	Red	Green	Blue	Hue	Sat	Lum
Pale Salmon		#FFCC99	255	204	153	030°	100%	80%
Light Salmon (web color)		#FFA07A	255	160	122	17°	52%	100%
Medium Salmon		#FF8C69	255	140	105	014°	100%	71%
Salmon (web color)		#FA8072	250	128	114	6°	54%	98%
Dark Salmon (web color)		#E9967A	233	150	122	15°	48%	91%
Light Salmon Pink		#FF9999	255	153	153	000°	100%	80%
Salmon Pink (Crayola Crayon "Salmon")		#FF91A4	255	145	164	350°	43%	100%

Salmon (color) Media

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  The flesh of the salmon fish is salmon-colored.

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  An ancient roman terracotta jar in Herculaneum, Italy

Related pages

• List of colors