Coffee (color)

Coffee is a brownish color that is a representation of the color of a roasted coffee bean. Different types of coffee beans have different colors when roasted—the color coffee represents an average.

Coffee beans before roasting
Coffee
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#6F4E37
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(111, 78, 55)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(0, 30, 51, 57)
HSV       (h, s, v)(25°, 51%, 44%)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The first recorded use of coffee as a color name in English was in 1695.[1]

Roasted coffee beans


Variations of coffee

Café au Lait
Café au Lait
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#A67B5B
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(166, 123, 91)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(0, 26, 45, 35)
HSV       (h, s, v)(26°, 45%, 65[2]%)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Coffee with milk (a latte)

The color displayed at right is café au lait, also known as coffee and milk or latte. This is a representation of the color of coffee mixed with milk, which when prepared commercially by a barista in a coffee shop is known as a latte.

The first recorded use of cafe au lait as a color name in English was in 1839.[3]

Café Noir
Café Noir
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#4B3621
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(75, 54, 33)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(0, 28, 56, 71)
HSV       (h, s, v)(30°, 56%, 29[4]%)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark yellowish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
A cup of black coffee

The color displayed at right is café noir, also known as black coffee. It is a representation of the color of brewed black coffee.

The first recorded use of cafe noir as a color name in English was in 1928.[5]

Coffee in human culture

Ethnography

  • African people are sometimes described as being coffee colored.
  • People who are mulatto sometimes describe themselves or are described as being colored café au lait.

References
  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Coffee: Page 53—Plate 15 Color Sample A11
  2. web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #A67B5B (Café au Lait):
  3. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191; Color Sample of Cafe au Lait: Page 47—Plate 12 Color Sample A6
  4. web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #4B3621 (Café Noir):
  5. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191; Color Sample of Cafe Noir: Page 39—Plate 8 Color Sample H12

See also
  • List of colors


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