Chocolate

#bb683f

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 #bb683f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bb683f

RGB187, 104, 63

HSL20, 50%, 49%

HSV20, 66%, 73%

CMYK0%, 44%, 66%, 27%

Lab52.76, 29.62, 37.17

XYZ26.34, 20.82, 7.33

Decimal12281919

Web safe#cc6633

Pantone471 C

Shades of chocolate

#ab5f39 #9a5634 #8a4d2e #794329 #693a23 #59311e #482818 #381f13 #27160d #170d08

Tints of chocolate

#c4754f #ca8361 #d09273 #d6a085 #dcae97 #e2bca9 #e8cabb #eed8cd #f4e6e0 #fbf5f2

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#3f92bb Analogous#bb3f54 Analogous#bba63f Triadic#3fbb68 Triadic#683fbb Split complementary#3fbba6 Split complementary#3f54bb

Chocolate in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 44, 66, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bb683f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 44 66 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 65 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 #bb683f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bb683f; }
.text { color: #bb683f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bb683f; }

How chocolate looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Chocolate and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #bb683f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bb683f 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 #bb683f 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 #bb683f 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 #bb683f come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.