Coffee (color)

Coffee
Coffee
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6F4E37
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(111, 78, 55)
HSV (h, s, v)	(25°, 50%, 44%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(36, 30, 39°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Moderate brown
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

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

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

The normalized color coordinates for coffee are identical to Tuscan brown, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1913.^[2]

^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 193; Color Sample of Coffee: p. 53—Plate 15 Color Sample A11
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 206; Color Sample of Tuscany: p. 37 Plate 7 Color Sample H12

[mp-1] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 193; Color Sample of Coffee: p. 53—Plate 15 Color Sample A11

[2] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 206; Color Sample of Tuscany: p. 37 Plate 7 Color Sample H12

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