Chocolate

#c8622a

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

Chocolate color values

Every conversion for #c8622a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8622a

RGB200, 98, 42

HSL21, 65%, 47%

HSV21, 79%, 78%

CMYK0%, 51%, 79%, 22%

Lab53.15, 37.02, 48.71

XYZ28.61, 21.18, 4.77

Decimal13132330

Web safe#cc6633

Pantone471 C

Shades of chocolate

#b75926 #a55123 #94481f #82401b #713718 #5f2f14 #4e2610 #3c1e0d #2b1509 #190c05

Tints of chocolate

#d56e36 #d97d4b #de8c60 #e29b74 #e6aa89 #ebb99e #efc8b2 #f3d7c7 #f8e5dc #fcf4f0

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#2a90c8 Analogous#c82a41 Analogous#c8b12a Triadic#2ac862 Triadic#622ac8 Split complementary#2ac8b1 Split complementary#2a41c8

Chocolate in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 51, 79, 22.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8622a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 51 79 22

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 51 77 28

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 #c8622a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8622a; }
.text { color: #c8622a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8622a; }

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 #c8622a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8622a 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 #c8622a 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 #c8622a 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 #c8622a 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.