Inspect Salmon (#FA8072) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.
Salmon
#FA8072
Black text reads best on this background, at 8.4:1.
Salmon is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #FA8072 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(250, 128, 114) and hsl(6, 93%, 71%). Perceptually it is a light, moderately saturated color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 74% and its chroma at 0.152. It sits in the reds at 28 degrees of OKLCH hue, and reads as a warm color.
White text only reaches 2.5:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 8.4:1. That combination of lightness and chroma makes it a workable mid-tone, the kind of value that lands in the middle of a shade scale.
The closest CSS named colors to Salmon, measured with CIEDE2000, are LightCoral (#F08080), Tomato (#FF6347), DarkSalmon (#E9967A). If Salmon is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.
HEX
#FA8072
RGB
rgb(250, 128, 114)
HSL
hsl(6, 93%, 71%)
HWB
hwb(6 45% 2%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 49%, 54%, 2%)
LAB
lab(67.85 46.63 30.16)
LCH
lch(67.85 55.53 32.9)
OKLCH
oklch(73.5% 0.1515 28.06)
WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #FA8072 white text measures 2.5:1 and black text 8.4:1, so black clears it and white does not.
White text on Salmon
WCAG 2.2
2.5:1
APCA
Lc 53
Fails AA body text
Fails AAA body text
Fails AA large text
Black text on Salmon
WCAG 2.2
8.4:1
APCA
Lc 55
Passes AA body text
Passes AAA body text
Passes AA large text
Check Salmon against any other color in the contrast checker.
Salmon sits at 74% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it up to #FFF6F5 and down to #140000, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.
#FF988B
20% lighter
#FFB2A7
40% lighter
#FFC9C1
60% lighter
#FFE0DB
80% lighter
#FFF6F5
100% lighter
#CF594E
20% darker
#A5322A
40% darker
#7B0004
60% darker
#440001
80% darker
#140000
100% darker
Build a full accessible scale from #FA8072 in the shade generator.
Hues rotated around #FA8072 in OKLCH, then pulled back into the sRGB gamut. Each swatch is labelled with the nearest CSS named color so you have a keyword to start from.
Salmon sits at 28 degrees. Rotating it a half turn lands on 208 degrees, the hue directly opposite. It is the strongest pairing you can make without changing lightness, and the one most likely to vibrate if you use both at full chroma.
The neighbors of Salmon at 358 and 58 degrees. They stay close enough to read as the same family, which is what you want for hover states, secondary surfaces and gradients.
28, 148 and 268 degrees divide the wheel into thirds. Balanced enough to carry a whole palette without one color dominating the other two.
Instead of the complement at 208 degrees, this pair flanks it at 178 and 238. You keep most of the contrast of a complementary pairing while losing the harshness.
Explore more combinations around Salmon on the color wheel.
The biggest shift is under deuteranopia, where #FA8072 reads as #B0A271, 30.6 CIEDE2000 units away. If Salmon is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.
Protanopia
#958D71
Deuteranopia
#B0A271
Tritanopia
#FF747C
Achromatopsia
#999999
The nearest CSS keywords to #FA8072, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.