Chocolate

#bb682e

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. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Chocolate color values

Every conversion for #bb682e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bb682e

RGB187, 104, 46

HSL25, 61%, 46%

HSV25, 75%, 73%

CMYK0%, 44%, 75%, 27%

Lab52.58, 28.72, 45.65

XYZ25.94, 20.66, 5.21

Decimal12281902

Web safe#cc6633

Pantone471 C

Shades of chocolate

#ab5f2a #9b5626 #8a4d22 #7a441e #6a3b1a #5a3216 #492912 #39200e #29170a #190e06

Tints of chocolate

#cd7435 #d3824a #d8915f #dd9f74 #e2ad89 #e7bc9d #eccab2 #f1d8c7 #f6e7dc #fbf5f1

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#2e81bb Analogous#bb2e3b Analogous#bbae2e Triadic#2ebb68 Triadic#682ebb Split complementary#2ebbae Split complementary#2e3abb

Chocolate in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 44, 75, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bb682e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 44 75 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 73 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 #bb682e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bb682e; }
.text { color: #bb682e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bb682e; }

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 #bb682e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bb682e 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 #bb682e 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 #bb682e 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 #bb682e is computed, not guessed. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.