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Salmon is 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.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.

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magenta coordinate in the CMYK space
45
yellow coordinate in the CMYK space
69
colour hex code
FA8072, FA8072
hue coordinate in the HSV colour space
14
saturation coordinate in the HSV colour space
52
value coordinate in the HSV colour space
100
bluecoordinate in the RGB space
114
green coordinate in the RGB space
128
red coordinate in the RGB space
250

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