Chocolate

Hex #D2691E, rgb(210 105 30). A brown CSS named color.

Chocolate#D2691E

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About Chocolate

Chocolate is a medium saturated brown with the hex code #D2691E. In RGB it is made of 210 red, 105 green and 30 blue; in HSL its hue is 25°, with 75% saturation and 47% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 63.4%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "chocolate" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 3.63:1 and against black 5.78:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Chocolate mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Chocolate 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Chocolate

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Chocolate with white and black. The readable text color on Chocolate is black.

Chocolate textSmall text on white

On white3.63:1

AA fail
AA Large pass
AAA fail
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 63

Chocolate textSmall text on black

On black5.78:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA fail
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -38

Black text on Chocolate (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Chocolate appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#87780E
Deuteranopia#A18F1B
Tritanopia#E7515B
Protanomaly#A17711
Deuteranomaly#AC8619
Tritanomaly#DB6042
Achromatopsia#868686

Colors similar to Chocolate

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Chocolate in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.chocolate {
  color: chocolate; /* #D2691E */
  background-color: rgb(210 105 30);
  border-color: oklch(63.4% 0.155 50.3);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-chocolate-500, text-chocolate-700... */
@theme {
  --color-chocolate-50: #FFF9F5;
  --color-chocolate-100: #FDEADF;
  --color-chocolate-200: #F7D4C1;
  --color-chocolate-300: #F0B390;
  --color-chocolate-400: #E0854F;
  --color-chocolate-500: #D2691E;
  --color-chocolate-600: #B85600;
  --color-chocolate-700: #954400;
  --color-chocolate-800: #783500;
  --color-chocolate-900: #602C05;
  --color-chocolate-950: #280D00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#D2691E] text-[#000000]">…</div>