Salmon (color)
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'''Salmon''' is a range of pale [[pink]]ish-[[Orange (colour)|orange]] to light orange [[color]]s, 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 farm]]s are given artificial coloring in their food.
{{color swatch|#FA8072|Salmon (<tt>#FA8072</tt>)|right}}
==Light Salmon Pink==
{{infobox color|
title= Light Salmon Pink|
hex= FF9999|
r=255|g=153|b=153|
c= 32|m=0|y=41|k= 4|
h= 0|s= 40|v= 100
}}
'''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!" [http://www.nakedandangry.com/pattern/1719/That_s_Not_Pink,_It_s_Salmon]
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.
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==Salmon Pink==
{{main|Salmon pink}}
{{infobox color|
title= Salmon Pink|
hex= FF91A4|
r=255|g=145|b=164|
c= 0|m= 54|y= 42|k= 0|
h= 14|s= 62|v=100
|source=[[List of Crayola crayon colors|Crayola]]}}
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]].
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==Light Salmon==
{{infobox color|
title= Light Salmon|
hex= FFA07A|
r=255|g=160|b=122|
c= 0|m=45|y=57|k= 0|
h= 14|s= 62|v=100
|source=[[Web color#X11 color list|X11]]}}
The [[web color]] '''light salmon''' is displayed at right.
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==Medium Salmon==
{{infobox color|
title= Medium Salmon|
hex= FF8C69|
r=255|g=140|b=105|
c= 0|m=45|y=59|k= 0|
h= 14|s= 59|v=100
}}
The color '''medium salmon''' is shown at right.
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==Salmon==
{{infobox color|
title= Salmon |
hex= FA8072|
r=250|g=128|b=114|
c= 0|m=45|y=69|k= 0|
h= 14|s= 52|v=100
|source=[[Web color#X11 color list|X11]]}}
The web color '''salmon''' is displayed at right.
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==Dark Salmon ==
{{infobox color|
title= Dark salmon|
hex= E9967A|
r=233|g=150|b=122|
c= 0|m= 36|y= 48|k= 9|
h= 15|s= 48|v= 91
|source=[[Web color#X11 color list|X11]]}}
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 [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]].
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==Artistic representations of the color salmon==
<gallery>
Image:Salade de jambon cru et saumon fume.jpg|Salad of ham and [[smoked salmon]].
<!-- Deleted image removed: Image:Canna-Salmon-Pink.jpg|Salmon colored [[Canna]] flower. -->
</gallery>
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==Shades of salmon color comparison chart==
<ul>
<li style = "background-color: #ff9999;"> Light Salmon Pink (Hex: #FF9999) (RGB: 255, 153, 153)</li>
<li style = "background-color: #ff91a4;"> [[Salmon pink|Salmon Pink]] (Crayola "Salmon") (Hex: #FF91A4) (RGB: 255, 145, 164)</li>
<li style = "background-color: #ffa07a;"> Light Salmon (web color) (Hex: #FFA07A) (RGB: 255, 160, 122)</li>
<li style = "background-color: #ff8c69;"> Medium Salmon (Hex: #FF8C69) (RGB: 255, 140, 105)</li>
<li style = "background-color: #fa8072;"> Salmon (web color) (Hex: #FA8072) (RGB: 250, 128, 114)</li>
<li style = "background-color: #e9967a;"> Dark Salmon (web color) (Hex: #E9967A) (RGB: 233, 150, 122)</li>
</ul>
== See also ==
* [[Salmon pink]]
* [[List of colors]]
{{Shades of orange}}
[[Category:Shades of orange]]
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