Salmon (color)

Salmon (color)
The flesh of the salmon fish is salmon colored.
Salmon
About these coordinates

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FA8072
RGBB (r, g, b) (250, 128, 114)
HSV (h, s, v) (14°, 52%, 100%)
Source X11[1][2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Salmon 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]

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Variations of salmon

Light salmon

Light salmon
About these coordinates

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FFA07A
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 160, 122)
HSV (h, s, v) (14°, 62%, 100%)
Source X11[1][2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color light salmon is displayed at right.


Dark salmon

Dark salmon
About these coordinates

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #E9967A
RGBB (r, g, b) (233, 150, 122)
HSV (h, s, v) (15°, 48%, 91%)
Source X11[1][2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, SVG color keywords
  2. ^ a b c W3C TR SVG 1.0, recognized color keyword names
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition on the use of canthaxanthin in feedingstuffs for salmon and trout, laying hens, and other poultry." (PDF). European Commission - Health & Consumer Protection Directorate. pp. 6–7. http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scan/out81_en.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-31. 
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Shades of orange
Amber Apricot Atomic tangerine Bittersweet Brown Burnt orange Carrot orange Champagne Coral Dark salmon
                   
Deep carrot orange ECE/SAE Amber Flame Gamboge Gold Gold (metallic) International orange Lion Mahogany Old gold
                   
Orange Orange (web) Orange-red Orange peel Papaya whip Peach Peach-orange Peach-yellow Persian orange
                 
Portland Orange Princeton orange Pumpkin Rust Safety orange Salmon Satin sheen gold Sunset Tangelo
                 
Tangerine Tea rose Tenné Tomato Vermilion
         
The samples shown above are only indicative.
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Shades of pink
Amaranth Amaranth pink Apricot Brink pink Carmine Carnation pink Cerise Coral pink Deep carmine Deep pink
                   
Fandango French rose Fuchsia Hollywood cerise Hot magenta Hot pink Lavender pink Magenta Peach Persian Rose
                   
Pink Puce Rose Rose pink Salmon Shocking pink Thulian pink Ultra pink
               
The samples shown above are only indicative.

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