Description and conversion results of color RAL 8017, Chocolate brown

It is a dark grayish red color having an approximate luminance of 23%. It has a hue value of 13° indicating that this is a warm color.

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Conversion results

The following list contains the conversion results of color RAL 8017, Chocolate brown to RGB, hexadecimal, HSL, HSV, Lab and XYZ colorspaces: each format represents the same color.

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Similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors

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Tints, shades and tones

Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to it respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.

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Tints

These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base RAL 8017, Chocolate brown color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish red color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.

This color scale contains similar colors to Umber, Deep Taupe, Liver, Granite Gray, Rocket Metallic, Taupe Gray, Middle Grey, Cinereous, Silver (Crayola), Pale Silver, Silver Chalice, Black Shadows, Gainsboro, Platinum, Timberwolf and Light Gray.

Shades

These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base RAL 8017, Chocolate brown color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish red color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.

This color scale contains similar colors to Black Coffee, Old Burgundy, Bistre, Raisin Black, Black Chocolate, Eerie Black, Smoky Black, Black and Rich Black (FOGRA39).

Tones

These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base RAL 8017, Chocolate brown color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish red color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.

This color scale contains similar colors to Black Coffee, Old Burgundy, Taupe, Dark Lava, Jet, Onyx and Black Olive.

Color schemes and palettes

Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.

We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively. In the following tables these color schemes are present.

Monochromatic

The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.

This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of rose, red, orange and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Liver, Eggplant, Lilac Luster, Black Shadows, Dark Liver (horses), Rose Ebony, Silver Pink, Dark Lava, Taupe, Grullo, Khaki (Web), Black Olive, Rifle Green and Silver Chalice.

Complementary

The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.

This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of red and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Old Burgundy, Dark Liver (horses), Cinereous, Rocket Metallic, Champagne Pink, Misty Rose, Outer Space (Crayola), Charcoal, Light Slate Gray, Slate Gray, Columbia Blue and Light Blue.

Triadic

The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.

This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of red, blue and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver Pink, Black Shadows, Independence, Charcoal, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Manatee, Dark Slate Gray, Kombu Green, Morning Blue and Ash Gray.

Tetradic

The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.

This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of red, green, cyan and violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver Pink, Black Shadows, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Ash Gray, Laurel Green, Charcoal, Dark Slate Gray, Pewter Blue, Cadet Grey, Dark Liver, Independence, Heliotrope Gray and Rose Quartz.

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