Chocolate Color Codes

Chocolate is a mid-tone, saturated orange with the hex code #D2691E, RGB values of 210, 105, 30 and an HSL value of hsl(25, 75%, 47%).

HEX	#D2691E
RGB	210, 105, 30
HSL	hsl(25, 75%, 47%)
HSV	25°, 86%, 82%
CMYK	0%, 50%, 86%, 18%
LAB	55.99, 37.05, 56.74
CIELCHuv	55.99, 98.62, 28.96°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 159 C ΔE 4.9 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: chocolate ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'Chocolate'

Chocolate Color Hex Code

The Chocolate color hex code is #D2691E. Those six digits are three pairs, D2 for red, 69 for green and 1E for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#D2691E

Chocolate Color RGB Code

The Chocolate RGB code is rgb(210, 105, 30). Red carries the most light at 210 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(210, 105, 30)

Chocolate Color HSV Code

The Chocolate HSV code is 25°, 86%, 82%. Read it as a hue of 25 degrees, 86% saturation and 82% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

25°, 86%, 82%

Chocolate Color CIELChuv Code

The Chocolate CIELCHuv code is 55.99, 98.62, 28.96°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 56 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 99 is how far it sits from grey.

55.99, 98.62, 28.96°

Tonal scale

What are Chocolate Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Chocolate Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #D2691E. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #1E87D2, a mid-tone, saturated azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#D21E2D and #D2C31E sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#1ED269 and #691ED2 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #1ED2C3 and #1E2DD2. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #1E87D2, and #2DD21E with #C31ED2. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

3.63:1

3.63

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

5.78:1

5.78

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Against white Chocolate reaches 3.63:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 5.78:1.

Check Chocolate against another color →

Color vision

How Chocolate looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#AFAE3B

Chocolate changes substantially here. ΔE 52.7

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#B4BA40

Chocolate changes substantially here. ΔE 57.3

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#CE4A4D

Chocolate changes substantially here. ΔE 34.2

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#868686

Chocolate changes substantially here. ΔE 67.8

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Chocolate reads as #B4BA40. That is a shift of ΔE 57.3, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 57.3. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Chocolate in code

:root {
  --chocolate: #D2691E;
}

.example {
  color: var(--chocolate);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'chocolate': '#D2691E',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let chocolate = Color(
    red: 0.824,
    green: 0.412,
    blue: 0.118
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="chocolate">#D2691E</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const chocolate = Color(0xFFD2691E);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Chocolate Color?

Chocolate reads as craft and durability. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 75% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 56 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Chocolate Color?

In CSS you can write Chocolate instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 159 C at #C66005. The name Chocolate comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Chocolate Color Made?

On a screen Chocolate is made by additive light: 210 red, 105 green and 30 blue out of 255, with red leading and 30 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 50%, 86%, 18%. Starting from the pure hue at 25 degrees, Chocolate is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.