CSS named color

Light Salmon #FFA07A

Light Salmon is light vivid orange. Below: every color format, WCAG contrast against black and white, its tints, shades and tones, and the harmonies that pair with it.

Color values

Contrast & accessibility

WCAG contrast ratio of Light Salmon used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
1.99:1

On white

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✕
Aa The quick brown fox
10.56:1

On black

AA ✓ AAA ✓ AA Large ✓

Tints, shades & tones

Systematic variations of Light Salmon — click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Simulated colour vision

How Light Salmon reads under the four common colour-vision deficiencies, using the standard Machado (2009) matrices at full severity. A simulation, not a measurement of any one person's vision; the point is whether this colour still does its job when hue drops out.

Typical vision#FFA07A

Tailwind-style ramp

Eleven steps from 50 to 950 with the hue and saturation of Light Salmon held and only lightness stepped. Computed, not curated: the 500 step sits closest to the source, which is where Tailwind puts a brand colour.

Color harmonies

Palettes built from Light Salmon by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Use Light Salmon in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#ffa07a], border-[#ffa07a].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

Turn Light Salmon into a complete shadcn/ui palette — light & dark, contrast-checked, one-command install.

Extract a theme →

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