Behr Chocolate Heart N170-5
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| Code: | N170-5 |
| Name: | Chocolate Heart |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Chocolate Heart?
Behr Chocolate Heart N170-5 is a muted medium brown with a dusty gray cast that keeps it from reading overly warm or heavy. Its red-brown base gives the shade a gentle warmth, while the softened saturation makes it feel more like an earthy taupe than a traditional chocolate brown. In bright daylight, it can show its subdued rosy-beige side; lower light brings out its deeper, more grounded brown character. Use it on a bedroom wall, dining room, or built-in cabinetry where a quiet mid-tone neutral is needed. Pair Chocolate Heart with creamy off-whites, charcoal accents, aged brass, natural oak, and textured linen for a layered, material-focused look.
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What are Behr Chocolate Heart undertones?
Chocolate Heart is a midtone, muted earthy, slightly muddy brown. The HEX sample leans orange; this describes its measurable digital hue direction, not a hidden paint pigment. Warm bulbs can make it look creamier or more golden, while cool daylight may mute that warmth and pull it closer to beige or greige.
HEX value:
RGB code:
143, 120, 108
Is Behr Chocolate Heart cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 21°, this dark pink reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
N170-5 Chocolate Heart HSL code: 21, 14%, 49%
Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.
How light temperature affects Chocolate Heart
Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.
In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:
| Direction of sunlight | Visible temp. | Hue | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | Cool | Bluish | All day |
| East | Warm | Yellow | Before noon |
| West | Warm | Orange-red | After noon |
| South | Warm | Orange-yellow | All day |
Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this dark pink shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Chocolate Heart:
Monochromatic color scheme
This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.
Lighter shades
N170-5
Chocolate Heart
Darker shades
N170-5
Chocolate Heart
Complementary color scheme
This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Chocolate Heart with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 201, such as Behr Oceanic Climate and Nor'Wester.
LRV of Chocolate Heart
Chocolate Heart has an LRV of 20.86% and refers to Medium colors that reflect a lot of light. Why LRV is important?
Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).
Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 20.86%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft2 living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.
Color codes
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| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #8f786c |
| RGB Decimal | 143, 120, 108 |
| RGB Percent | 56.08%, 47.06%, 42.35% |
| HSV | Hue: 21° Saturation: 24.48% Value: 56.08% |
| HSL | hsl(21, 14, 49) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 16.08 Yellow: 24.48 Key: 43.92 |
| YIQ | Y: 125.509 I: 17.562 Q: 1.131 |
| XYZ | X: 20.751 Y: 20.356 Z: 17.019 |
| CIE Lab | L:52.237 a:6.945 b:9.915 |
| CIE Luv | L:52.237 u:15.104 v:11.833 |
| Decimal | 9402476 |
| Hunter Lab | 45.118, 3.141, 9.217 |
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