Chocolate

#ba5500

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for chocolate, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Chocolate sits in the orange range, deep and vivid. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Chocolate color values

Every conversion for #ba5500, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ba5500

RGB186, 85, 0

HSL27, 100%, 36%

HSV27, 100%, 73%

CMYK0%, 54%, 100%, 27%

Lab48.18, 37.18, 57.62

XYZ23.5, 16.94, 2.03

Decimal12211456

Web safe#cc6600

Pantone1525 C

Shades of chocolate

#aa4e00 #9b4700 #8b4000 #7c3900 #6c3100 #5d2a00 #4d2300 #3e1c00 #2e1500 #1f0e00

Tints of chocolate

#d96300 #f77100 #ff8117 #ff9235 #ffa254 #ffb373 #ffc391 #ffd4b0 #ffe5cf #fff5ed

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#0065ba Analogous#ba0008 Analogous#bab200 Triadic#00ba55 Triadic#5500ba Split complementary#00bab2 Split complementary#0008ba

Chocolate in print

It is saturated enough that the cmyk build can shift slightly from screen to press, so proof it. The cmyk build is 0, 54, 100, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ba5500 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 54 100 27

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 54 96 33

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Chocolate in css

Copy #ba5500 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ba5500; }
.text { color: #ba5500; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ba5500; }

How chocolate looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Chocolate and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ba5500 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ba5500 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Chocolate on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ba5500 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around chocolate? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn chocolate into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ba5500 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from chocolate, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ba5500 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.