Chocolate

#cf7952

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 #cf7952, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cf7952

RGB207, 121, 82

HSL19, 57%, 57%

HSV19, 60%, 81%

CMYK0%, 42%, 60%, 19%

Lab59.48, 29.92, 35.59

XYZ34.09, 27.55, 11.5

Decimal13597010

Web safe#cc6666

Pantone1645 C

Shades of chocolate

#c9693e #ba5d34 #a6532e #914928 #7d3f23 #69351d #552b17 #402012 #2c160c #180c07

Tints of chocolate

#d38562 #d89272 #dc9e82 #e1aa92 #e5b7a2 #e9c3b1 #eecfc1 #f2dcd1 #f7e8e1 #fbf4f1

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#52a8cf Analogous#cf526a Analogous#cfb852 Triadic#52cf79 Triadic#7952cf Split complementary#52cfb8 Split complementary#5269cf

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, 60, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cf7952 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 42 60 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 43 59 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 #cf7952 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cf7952; }
.text { color: #cf7952; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cf7952; }

How chocolate looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Chocolate and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #cf7952 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cf7952 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 #cf7952 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 #cf7952 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 #cf7952 are worked out. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.