Salmon Pink #FE7B7C

About this color

#FE7B7C is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 74%, its chroma 0.160 and its hue 21°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Salmon Pink. Black text reads best on it, at 8.33:1.

Colors that go with Salmon Pink

Matches found by rotating Salmon Pink around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Salmon Pink

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Salmon Pink, closest first.

• Gumdrop Playground
• Velvet Dusk
• Lilac Terrace
• Heather Fade
• Mulberry Crumble
• Plum and Pomegranate
• Plum and Rhubarb
• Velvet Carols

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Salmon Pink, with their ΔE distance.

• Salmon #FA8072 ΔE 0.020
• Blush Pink #FE828C ΔE 0.021
• Light Coral #F08080 ΔE 0.025
• Carnation #FD798F ΔE 0.028
• Rose Pink #F7879A ΔE 0.040
• Melon #FF7855 ΔE 0.044
• Orange Pink #FF6F52 ΔE 0.047
• Coral Pink #FF6163 ΔE 0.050

More about Salmon Pink

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Salmon Pink

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 3 parts red
• 1 part orange

Recipe result: #FD7F82, a difference of ΔE 0.009 from Salmon Pink. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Salmon Pink in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Salmon Pink

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FEF2F1

   oklch(97% 0.013 23.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FDE3E1

   oklch(93.6% 0.029 23)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FCCBC9

   oklch(88.4% 0.056 21)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FBA7A4

   oklch(81% 0.1 21.7)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #FE7B7C

   oklch(73.5% 0.16 21.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #EB424F

   oklch(63% 0.205 21.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D70433

   oklch(55.6% 0.223 21.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B60029

   oklch(49% 0.197 21.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #970121

   oklch(42.8% 0.172 21.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #791520

    oklch(37.8% 0.133 21.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #470F13

    oklch(26.9% 0.085 21.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Salmon Pink with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.