iTextsharp font color different in PDF - pdf

Question

I'm creating a PDF with images and text. Text can be of varying color. I convert the color from the HTML color code to get me a System.Drawing.Color object but the color turns out differently in the generated PDF. In one particular instance, the html code is 3C3C3C and it comes out as 3C403E. I check the color by using a color picker to get the color in the PDF.
var color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#3C3C3C);
iTextSharp.text.Font font = font = FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA);
font.Color = new BaseColor(color);
// boxValue is a string
Phrase phrase = new Phrase(boxValue, font);
ColumnText columnText = new ColumnText(canvas);
columnText.SetSimpleColumn(boxRectangle);
columnText.Leading = lineHeight;
columnText.SetLeading(lineHeight, 0);
columnText.SetText(phrase);
columnText.Alignment = alignment;
columnText.Go();

Answer 1

It turns out that it does save the actual color in the PDF. I discovered this by using a PDF inspector and do see the correct values used.

Answer 2

public static BaseColor stringToBaseColor(string code)
{
Color color = ColorFromString(code);
BaseColor b = new BaseColor(color);
return ColorToBaseColor(color);
}
public static BaseColor ColorToBaseColor(Color color)
{
return new BaseColor(color);
}
public static Color ColorFromString(string code)
{
string[] colors = code.Split(',');
List<int> myInts = Array.ConvertAll(colors, s => int.Parse(s)).ToList();
return Color.FromArgb(myInts[0], myInts[1], myInts[2]);
}