Chocolate

#ce5000

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

Chocolate is a deep orange with weighty warmth. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Chocolate color values

Every conversion for #ce5000, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ce5000

RGB206, 80, 0

HSL23, 100%, 40%

HSV23, 100%, 81%

CMYK0%, 61%, 100%, 19%

Lab50.52, 47.23, 60.66

XYZ28.32, 18.86, 2.15

Decimal13520896

Web safe#cc6600

Pantone1595 C

Shades of chocolate

#bc4900 #ab4200 #993c00 #883500 #762e00 #652700 #532000 #421a00 #301300 #1f0c00

Tints of chocolate

#eb5b00 #ff6808 #ff7a25 #ff8b41 #ff9d5e #ffae7b #ffc097 #ffd1b4 #ffe3d1 #fff4ed

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#007ece Analogous#ce0017 Analogous#ceb700 Triadic#00ce50 Triadic#5000ce Split complementary#00ceb7 Split complementary#0017ce

Chocolate in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 0, 61, 100, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ce5000 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 61 100 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 60 96 25

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #ce5000 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ce5000; }
.text { color: #ce5000; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ce5000; }

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 #ce5000 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ce5000 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 #ce5000 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 #ce5000 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 #ce5000 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.