Chocolate Chip Color

#685a4e

Chocolate Chip is pale, warm-toned shade of warm red. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with cool cyan, cool magenta or cool green

Inverse Color #97a5b1
Complementary Color #4e5b68
Color Shade: warm red (27.69° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 35.69% (better contrasting with white)
Chocolate Chip Color Sample
Chocolate Chip Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #685a4e

If you're looking for a similar warm red shade, there are some better alternatives to Chocolate Chip Color. The Jasmine Hollow color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a mid red bias. Consider a lighter and more soft alternative called Rye Brown (#807465) for more calm effect. Try Bat Wing as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#4e5b68 is the best complementary color to Chocolate Chip. Cool cyan shades generally complement the warm red hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #685a4e complementary color is River Bed, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of cool red, warm red, and warm yellow colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Soya Bean are #684e4f and #68674e. Thus found on the left and right of #685a4e on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Ferra and Finch colors as they work well with Chocolate Chip.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Chocolate Chip palette consists of #4e4e68 and #4e6867 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#4e5b68). Try Mulled Wine and Cutty Sark colors in combination with #685a4e, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #685a4e offers a combination of warm blue and cool green shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Chocolate Chip. Thus Mulled Wine and Nandor giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Chocolate Chip contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary River Bed, Axolotl, and Salt Box split by 90° on the color wheel. #685a4e square combo is a palette of warm red, warm green, cool cyan and cool magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Chocolate Chip tetradic combo consists of cool cyan complementary color (#4e5b68) and two others. The Nandor is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Don Juan – 120° from the complementary River Bed. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #4e685a and #684e5c.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #685a4e is made of 38% red, 33% green and 29% blue. In a HSL mode Chocolate Chip has a hue angle of 27.69°, a saturation of 14.29% and a lightness of 35.69%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #685a4e is made of 0% cyan, 5.49% magenta, 10.19% yellow and 59.22% black ink.

HEX #685a4e
RGB Decimal rgb(104,90,78)
RGB Percentage 38%, 33%, 29%
CMYK 0, 5.49, 10.19, 59.22
HSL hsl(27.69,14.29%,35.69%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(27.69,25%,40.78%)
CIE-LAB lab(39.2508,3.5786,9.0277)
XYZ xyz(10.7402,10.8054,8.7273)
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