Chocolate

#c46d40

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

Chocolate is a mid orange with confident 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 #c46d40, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c46d40

RGB196, 109, 64

HSL20, 53%, 51%

HSV20, 67%, 77%

CMYK0%, 44%, 67%, 23%

Lab55.12, 30.68, 39.69

XYZ29.16, 23.04, 7.76

Decimal12873024

Web safe#cc6633

Pantone471 C

Shades of chocolate

#b56338 #a45933 #92502d #814628 #6f3c22 #5d331d #4c2917 #3a2012 #29160d #170d07

Tints of chocolate

#c97b52 #cf8863 #d49675 #daa387 #dfb199 #e5beaa #eaccbc #f0d9ce #f5e7e0 #fbf5f1

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#4097c4 Analogous#c44055 Analogous#c4af40 Triadic#40c46d Triadic#6d40c4 Split complementary#40c4af Split complementary#4055c4

Chocolate in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 44, 67, 23.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c46d40 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 44 67 23

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 66 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Chocolate in css

Copy #c46d40 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c46d40; }
.text { color: #c46d40; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c46d40; }

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 #c46d40 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c46d40 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Chocolate on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #c46d40 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn chocolate into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #c46d40 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 #c46d40 is computed, not guessed. 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.