Chocolate

#ba7441

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

Chocolate is a mid orange with grounded warmth. A mid orange this warm suits food, sport and friendly brands. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Chocolate color values

Every conversion for #ba7441, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ba7441

RGB186, 116, 65

HSL25, 48%, 49%

HSV25, 65%, 73%

CMYK0%, 38%, 65%, 27%

Lab55.39, 22.77, 39.13

XYZ27.45, 23.31, 8.05

Decimal12219457

Web safe#cc6633

Pantone723 C

Shades of chocolate

#aa6a3b #996036 #895530 #794b2a #684124 #58371f #482d19 #372313 #27180e #170e08

Tints of chocolate

#c28151 #c88e63 #cf9b75 #d5a887 #dbb598 #e1c2aa #e8cebc #eedbce #f4e8e0 #faf5f2

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#4187ba Analogous#ba414a Analogous#bab141 Triadic#41ba74 Triadic#7441ba Split complementary#41bab1 Split complementary#414aba

Chocolate in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 38, 65, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ba7441 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 38 65 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 39 64 33

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

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

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 #ba7441 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ba7441; }
.text { color: #ba7441; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ba7441; }

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 #ba7441 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ba7441 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 #ba7441 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 #ba7441 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

Every value on this page for #ba7441 is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.