The color chocolate is a shade of brown that resembles chocolate. The first recorded use of chocolate as a color name in English was in 1737. This color is a representation of the color of the most common type of chocolate, milk chocolate.
Chocolate cosmos, or red cosmos is the color of Cosmos atrosanguineus flowering plant. The color is described as dark red, deep crimson, deeper burgundy, deep red chocolate, as dark hazelnut and velvety maroon.
The web color called "chocolate" is actually the color of the exterior of an unripe cocoa bean pod, not the color of processed chocolate. Historically, this color is known as cocoa brown, with its first recorded use as a color name in English dating back to 1925. It may also be referred to as light chocolate or cinnamon.
