Chocolate brown on warm, light skin tones (Light Spring)

The answer

No. Chocolate brown sits well outside the Light Spring palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #A8917A, ΔE 36.8 away, which is one of the four neutrals the season is built on. Under 12 reads as the same colour family; past 25 the two are visibly different colours.

There is a second problem. Chocolate brown lands within ΔE 8.8 of #2B1B12, which is on the short list of colours that actively work against Light Spring colouring. That is the failure people can see and cannot name.

How chocolate brown scores across all twelve seasons

Chocolate brown is an opinionated colour: Deep Autumn scores it 91 and Light Summer scores it 0. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Light Spring sits 11 of twelve at 0, 91 points behind Deep Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

• Deep Autumn: 91 (ΔE 3.5).
• True Autumn: 79 (ΔE 8.6).
• Soft Autumn: 67 (ΔE 13.4).
• Light Spring: 0 (ΔE 36.8) <- this season.
• Light Summer: 0 (ΔE 39.6).

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the Light Spring palette that get closest to what you wanted from chocolate brown, so the substitution costs the least.

• #A8917A: mid-tone, a camel (ΔE 8.3).
• #F0A57E: light, nearest common name camel (ΔE 12.1).
• #F5A98C: light, nearest common name coral (ΔE 13.2).