Salmon (#FA8072) is a light, highly saturated red hue. Salmon is a pinkish orange named after the fish; it softens a palette without going pastel.
In RGB it is made of 250 red, 128 green and 114 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 6° with 93% saturation and 71% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 74% with a chroma of 0.152. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 49% magenta, 54% yellow and 2% black.
As a text color on white, Salmon has a contrast ratio of 2.5:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 8.4:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Salmon as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 55 for black text and Lc -54 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #00BFD3, close to process cyan. Colors that look most similar are coral, terracotta, tangerine. People with red-green color blindness see salmon quite differently (ΔE 14), so do not rely on it alone to signal meaning.