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rgb(127, 78, 30)
#7F4E1E

Milk Chocolate #7F4E1E RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Milk Chocolate (#7F4E1E) is a moderately saturated, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 50% red, 31% green and 12% blue (R 127, G 78, B 30). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 30°, 62% saturation and 31% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.101, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 39% magenta, 76% yellow and 50% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Milk Chocolate color codes

#7F4E1E in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #7F4E1E Valid CSS
RGB rgb(127, 78, 30) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(30, 62%, 31%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(30, 76%, 50%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(30 12% 50%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 39%, 76%, 50%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(47.1% 0.0905 61.55) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(47.1% 0.0431 0.0796) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(38.31% 18.11 36.12) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(38.31% 40.41 63.37) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4709 0.3146 0.1558) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1171 0.1006 0.0255) Valid CSS
Decimal 8343070 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1005. Nearest web-safe color: #666633.

Mix Milk Chocolate with other colors

See what #7F4E1E makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintMilk Chocolate and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightMilk Chocolate and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintMilk Chocolate and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMilk Chocolate blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Milk Chocolate in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--milk-chocolate: #7F4E1E;
Sass variable$milk-chocolate: #7F4E1E;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-milk-chocolate: #7F4E1E; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'milk-chocolate': '#7F4E1E' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.498, green: 0.306, blue: 0.118)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.498, green: 0.306, blue: 0.118, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="milk_chocolate">#FF7F4E1E</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF7F4E1E)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #7F4E1E (6.97:1, AA). Here is how #7F4E1E does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.97:1 on white
APCA Lc 84
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.01:1 on black
APCA Lc -18
AA LargeTry #9C693B

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Milk Chocolate

#7F4E1E next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

With deuteranopia, #7F4E1E and #1E7F4E look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Milk Chocolate

A brown picked by a crowd

Our #7F4E1E is the milk chocolate of the 2010 xkcd color survey. Randall Munroe published the 954 most common names from it, each with one RGB value, in a public list. He placed every name where the answers for it were most dense.

Wikipedia picks another brown

Wikipedia gives milk chocolate as #84563C, taken from a site called Color Register. That one is a bit redder and greyer. Ours has more orange in it. For darker browns, see chocolate or coffee. White text on #7F4E1E has a contrast of 6.97 to 1.

Milk Chocolate in a user interface

A sample app screen with #7F4E1E as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #7F4E1E as it is. On the dark theme, #7F4E1E is too hard to read as text (2.55:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A97547 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Milk Chocolate

These schemes turn the hue of #7F4E1E around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#7F4E1E#1E4F7F

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#7F1E1Ethis#7F4E1E#7F7F1E

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#7F4E1E#1E7F4E#4E1E7F

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#7F4E1E#1E7F7F#1E1E7F

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#7F4E1E#4F7F1E#1E4F7F#4E1E7F

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#7F4E1E#1E7F1E#1E4F7F#7F1E7F

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#533313#965C23#D1853B#E1AF7E#F0D9C1

Gradients with Milk Chocolate

Four CSS gradients made from #7F4E1E. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #E5DAD0, #7F4E1E);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #7F4E1E, #1F0F03);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7F1E1E, #7F4E1E, #7F7F1E);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7F4E1E, #616938, #1E7F4E);

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Shades, tints and tones of Milk Chocolate

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Milk Chocolate sits at step 700. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5EC
  2. 100
    FFE8D6
  3. 200
    F7D3B5
  4. 300
    E4B790
  5. 400
    CA976A
  6. 500
    AE794B
  7. 600
    915F31
  8. 700
    7F4E1E
  9. 800
    5E3814
  10. 900
    45290E
  11. 950
    28190C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #7F4E1E in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 8003 Clay brown#80542F, nearly the same (ΔE 2.0)Tailwind CSSyellow-800 #854D0E, nearly the same (ΔE 1.4)CSS color namessaddlebrown #8B4513, very close (ΔE 2.9)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of brown or search the color library.