To provide a two-dimensional color code that enables a decline in data recording capacity to be restrained even if there is a reference color area.

A two-dimensional color code enables data to be recorded by assigning prescribed colors selected out of a plurality of different colors to a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged cells. A two-dimensional color code 10 comprises a data area 12 in which a first set of data is recorded and a reference color area 11 having a plurality of cells to each of which a reference color, corresponding to each of the plurality of colors, to be referenced when reading the first set of data is to be read out of the data area 12. In the reference color area 11, a second set of data is recorded in the order of arraying the reference colors assigned to the plurality of respective cells.