Chocolate

#e35f00

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

This is Chocolate, a vivid orange at 25 degrees. 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 #e35f00, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e35f00

RGB227, 95, 0

HSL25, 100%, 45%

HSV25, 100%, 89%

CMYK0%, 58%, 100%, 11%

Lab56.6, 48.06, 65.81

XYZ35.77, 24.52, 2.85

Decimal14900992

Web safe#cc6600

Pantone166 C

Shades of chocolate

#cf5700 #bc4f00 #a84600 #943e00 #813600 #6d2e00 #5a2500 #461d00 #321500 #1f0d00

Tints of chocolate

#fe6a00 #ff7919 #ff8934 #ff984e #ffa869 #ffb783 #ffc69e #ffd6b8 #ffe5d3 #fff5ed

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#0084e3 Analogous#e30012 Analogous#e3d100 Triadic#00e35f Triadic#5f00e3 Split complementary#00e3d1 Split complementary#0012e3

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, 58, 100, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e35f00 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 58 100 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 57 96 17

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 #e35f00 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e35f00; }
.text { color: #e35f00; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e35f00; }

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 #e35f00 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e35f00 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 #e35f00 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 #e35f00 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 #e35f00 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.