Chocolate

#c46021

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

Chocolate sits in the orange range, mid and strong. 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 #c46021, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c46021

RGB196, 96, 33

HSL23, 71%, 45%

HSV23, 83%, 77%

CMYK0%, 51%, 83%, 23%

Lab52.08, 36.16, 51.41

XYZ27.22, 20.21, 3.91

Decimal12869665

Web safe#cc6633

Pantone471 C

Shades of chocolate

#b3581e #a24f1b #914718 #803f16 #6f3613 #5e2e10 #4d260d #3c1d0a #2b1507 #1a0d04

Tints of chocolate

#da6b25 #de7a3c #e28a52 #e69969 #e9a87f #edb796 #f1c7ac #f5d6c3 #f9e5d9 #fcf5f0

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#2185c4 Analogous#c42133 Analogous#c4b121 Triadic#21c460 Triadic#6021c4 Split complementary#21c4b2 Split complementary#2133c4

Chocolate in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 51, 83, 23.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c46021 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 51 83 23

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 51 80 29

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 #c46021 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c46021; }
.text { color: #c46021; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c46021; }

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 #c46021 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c46021 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 #c46021 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 #c46021 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

Here is how the numbers for #c46021 are worked out. 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.