Salmon (color)

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Salmon is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light orange 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.

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Salmon

1 Light Salmon Pink
2 Salmon Pink
3 Light Salmon
4 Medium Salmon
5 Salmon
6 Dark Salmon
7 Artistic representations of the color salmon
8 Shades of salmon color comparison chart
9 See also

[edit] Light Salmon Pink

Light Salmon Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF9999
RGB^a	(r, g, b)	(255, 153, 153)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 40%, 100%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.

It has become a running joke that when a male wears clothing that is pale pink (usually bought by a female loved one) to emphatically insist "It's not pink, it's salmon!" [1]

This color is used in the paper of some economic newspapers like the Financial Times. Hence economic press is sometimes named salmon press as opposed to white general newspapers.

[edit] Salmon Pink

Salmon Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF91A4
RGB^a	(r, g, b)	(255, 145, 164)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(14°, 62%, 100%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.

[edit] Light Salmon

Light Salmon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FFA07A
RGB^a	(r, g, b)	(255, 160, 122)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(14°, 62%, 100%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color light salmon is displayed at right.

[edit] Medium Salmon

Medium Salmon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF8C69
RGB^a	(r, g, b)	(255, 140, 105)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(14°, 59%, 100%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color medium salmon is shown at right.

[edit] Salmon

Salmon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FA8072
RGB^a	(r, g, b)	(250, 128, 114)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(14°, 52%, 100%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color salmon is displayed at right.

[edit] Dark Salmon

Dark salmon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#E9967A
RGB^a	(r, g, b)	(233, 150, 122)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(15°, 48%, 91%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.

[edit] Artistic representations of the color salmon

Salad of ham and smoked salmon.

The Financial Times.

Salmon colored Canna flower.

[edit] 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)

[edit] See also

						Shades of orange
Orange	Amber	Coral	Dark salmon	Gamboge	International orange	Mahogany	Peach	Peach-orange	Peach-yellow	Pink-orange	Pomegranate	Pumpkin

Rust	Safety orange	Salmon	Tangerine	Tenné (Tawny)	UNECE Amber	Vermilion	Burnt Orange	Apricot	Carrot Orange	Orange Peel	Orange (web)	Brown