Salmon Screen
Fill your whole display with salmon in one click. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
Salmon wallpaper
What a salmon screen is for
Salmon is a soft pink-orange, light enough to work as a gentle fill light on a video call without the harshness of full white, and warm enough to counteract cold overhead lighting.
The colour of a fish that eats crustaceans
Salmon flesh is not naturally pink. The colour comes from astaxanthin, a carotenoid the fish accumulate by eating krill and other crustaceans, and farmed salmon are fed the same compound to produce it. Without that in the diet the flesh is pale grey. Flamingos are pink for the identical reason and lose the colour on a different diet. It is one of the clearest cases of an animal's colour being borrowed from its food.
Between pink and orange
Salmon is a light, desaturated pink-orange: red high with green somewhat lower and blue lower still. Its lightness places it with the pastels, but it carries more warmth than most, which is why it appears frequently in interiors and in period design. It sits close enough to coral and peach that the three are easily confused; salmon is the pinkest, coral the most orange, and peach the palest of the three.
Warm light colours and skin
Light warm colours are flattering as a light source on skin, because they add the reds that skin already reflects rather than fighting them, which is the reasoning behind warm-toned fill lighting and the practice of using a warm reflector outdoors. A salmon screen at moderate brightness is a workable improvised fill for a video call, and it is gentler than a full white screen at the same brightness because the total light is lower.
Click the panel above to go fullscreen and press Esc to come back. The color is drawn by your browser, so nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.
Salmon color values
The exact values for this shade, if you need to match it somewhere else.
| Hex | #FA8072 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 250, 128, 114 |
| HSL | 6°, 93%, 71% |
| CMYK | 0%, 49%, 54%, 2% |
| Contrast on white | 2.5:1 |
| Contrast on black | 8.4:1 |
Contrast ratios follow the WCAG formula. Anything at or above 4.5:1 is readable as body text against that background, and 3:1 is the floor for large headings. Salmon reaches that bar on black.
Colors close to salmon
Measured as perceived difference, not by name, so these are the shades that genuinely sit nearest salmon to the eye.
Questions
Does this work on a phone?
Yes. On mobile the page fills the screen when you tap the panel. Some browsers keep a thin status bar visible, which is a browser limit rather than something the page controls.
Will a salmon screen fix a stuck pixel?
Sometimes. A stuck pixel is lit in one color and can occasionally be freed by cycling colors rapidly for a few minutes. A dead pixel receives no power at all and cannot be recovered in software.
What is the hex code for this salmon screen?
This page uses #FA8072. The same value is shown in RGB, HSL and CMYK further down, so you can match this exact shade somewhere else.
Does a salmon screen save battery?
No, and on an OLED or AMOLED screen a light color costs more power than a dark one, because every pixel has to be lit. If battery life is the goal, use the black screen instead.
Can I download this salmon as a wallpaper?
Yes. There is a ready-made 1920 by 1080 PNG on this page, and the panel above will generate the same color at your own screen size, at 1440p or 4K, or at phone dimensions. No watermark and no sign-up.
Is it free?
Yes, and there is no sign-up. The page draws a color; that is the whole tool.