Chocolate

#cf784e

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

Chocolate color values

Every conversion for #cf784e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cf784e

RGB207, 120, 78

HSL20, 57%, 56%

HSV20, 62%, 81%

CMYK0%, 42%, 62%, 19%

Lab59.2, 30.17, 37.41

XYZ33.82, 27.25, 10.68

Decimal13596750

Web safe#cc6666

Pantone1645 C

Shades of chocolate

#ca693a #b85e32 #a4532d #904927 #7c3f22 #68351c #542b17 #402111 #2c160c #180c07

Tints of chocolate

#d3845e #d8916f #dc9d7f #e1aa8f #e5b69f #eac3b0 #eecfc0 #f2dbd0 #f7e8e1 #fbf4f1

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#4ea5cf Analogous#cf4e64 Analogous#cfb94e Triadic#4ecf78 Triadic#784ecf Split complementary#4ecfb9 Split complementary#4e64cf

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, 42, 62, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cf784e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 42 62 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 43 61 25

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 #cf784e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cf784e; }
.text { color: #cf784e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cf784e; }

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 #cf784e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cf784e 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 #cf784e 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 #cf784e 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 #cf784e are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.