Chocolate

#fa6900

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

Chocolate is a mid orange with balanced 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 #fa6900, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fa6900

RGB250, 105, 0

HSL25, 100%, 49%

HSV25, 100%, 98%

CMYK0%, 58%, 100%, 2%

Lab62.02, 51.88, 70.75

XYZ44.48, 30.43, 3.53

Decimal16410880

Web safe#ff6600

Pantone1585 C

Shades of chocolate

#e46000 #ce5700 #b84d00 #a24400 #8c3b00 #763200 #602800 #4a1f00 #351600 #1f0d00

Tints of chocolate

#ff7613 #ff842b #ff9244 #ffa05c #ffae74 #ffbc8c #ffcba5 #ffd9bd #ffe7d5 #fff5ed

Colors that go with chocolate

Complementary#0091fa Analogous#fa0014 Analogous#fae600 Triadic#00fa69 Triadic#6900fa Split complementary#00fae6 Split complementary#0014fa

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, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fa6900 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 58 100 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 57 96 8

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 #fa6900 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fa6900; }
.text { color: #fa6900; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fa6900; }

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 #fa6900 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fa6900 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 #fa6900 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 #fa6900 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 #fa6900 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.