Dulux Malt Chocolate / Expresso Delight 4 / 80YR 57/070

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Malt Chocolate for bedroom (4 photos)
Malt Chocolate for living room (4 photos)
Dulux Malt Chocolate for bathroom (2 photos)
Dulux Malt Chocolate reviews (10 photos)
What are Dulux Malt Chocolate undertones?
Is Malt Chocolate 80YR 57/070 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Malt Chocolate
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
LRV of Malt Chocolate 80YR 57/070
Color codes
Color equivalents

Code:	80YR 57/070
Name:	Malt Chocolate
Brand:	Dulux

What color is Dulux Malt Chocolate?

Dulux Malt Chocolate 80YR 57/070 is a light, muted beige with a noticeable rosy cast that keeps it from reading as plain cream. Its soft red-brown undertone gives the color gentle warmth, while the low saturation makes it feel slightly weathered rather than sugary or peachy. In bright daylight, Malt Chocolate can appear like a pale blush-taupe; under warmer lamps, it settles into a fuller biscuit-beige. It is well suited to bedroom, living room, or hallway walls where a quiet warm neutral is wanted without a yellow undertone. Pair it with chalky white trim, warm oak, natural linen, terracotta ceramics, or deeper mushroom and cocoa accents.

Malt Chocolate for bedroom (4 photos)

We’ve hand-picked a beautiful collection of photos of this amazing beige shade used in real bedrooms. Take a look and imagine how this wonderful warm mid-tone paint color could transform your own bedroom space.

Dulux Malt Chocolate bedroom color review

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Malt Chocolate for living room (4 photos)

Check out this stunning mid-tone color used in real living rooms. Explore how this beige shade can create a unique space

Dulux Malt Chocolate living room accent wall

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Dulux Malt Chocolate living room makeover

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Dulux 80YR 57/070 for bathroom (2 photos)

Looking for inspiration for your dream bathroom renovation project? These beautiful handpicked photos will show you this delightfully warm mid-tone beige real bathrooms.

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Dulux Malt Chocolate bathroom wall panelling

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Dulux Malt Chocolate reviews (10 photos)

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What are Dulux Malt Chocolate undertones?

Malt Chocolate is a light, very muted muted beige. The HEX sample has a subtle orange bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear orange. 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:

#D1C2B9

RGB code:

209, 194, 185

Is Dulux Malt Chocolate cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 22°, this Beige reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

80YR 57/070 Malt Chocolate HSL code: 22, 21%, 77%

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 Malt Chocolate

Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.

Sunrise

Morning

Noon

Afternoon

Sunset

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 Beige shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Dulux Malt Chocolate:

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

80YR 57/070
Malt Chocolate

Darker shades

80YR 57/070
Malt Chocolate

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 Malt Chocolate with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 202, such as Dulux Misty Morning and Denim Drift.

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LRV of Malt Chocolate

Malt Chocolate has an LRV of 57% and refers to Light colors that reflect most of the incident light. Why LRV is important?

Light Reflectance Value scale illustration

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 57%, 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

We have collected almost every possible color code you could ever need.
Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models

Format	Code
HEX	#D1C2B9
RGB Decimal	209, 194, 185
RGB Percent	81.96%, 76.08%, 72.55%
HSV	Hue: 22° Saturation: 11.48% Value: 81.96%
HSL	hsl(22, 21, 77)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 7.18 Yellow: 11.48 Key: 18.04
YIQ	Y: 197.459 I: 11.831 Q: 0.372
XYZ	X: 54.342 Y: 55.643 Z: 53.763
CIE Lab	L:79.41 a:3.738 b:6.422
CIE Luv	L:79.41 u:9.418 v:8.751
Decimal	13746873
Hunter Lab	74.594, -0.502, 9.483