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{{colorswatch|coffee|6F4E37}}
'''Coffee''' is a [[brown]]ish [[color]] that is like the color of a medium roasted [[coffee bean]]s. Different types of coffee beans have different colors when unroasted--the color coffee represents an average.  
The first time ''coffee'' was used as a color name in [[English language|English]] was in 1695. <ref name=mp> 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</ref>
The source of the color displayed at right is the ISCC-NBS Color List (see Page C, Coffee, color sample #58). <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |title=ISCC NBS Color List—See Coffee, color sample #58: |access-date=2011-08-08 |archive-date=2017-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730190624/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> 


The first recorded use of ''Cafe au Lait'' as a color name in [[English language|English]] was in 1839. <ref> 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</ref>
The source of the color "Cafe au Lait" displayed below is the ISCC-NBS Color List (see Page C, Coffee, color sample #57). <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |title=ISCC NBS Color List—See Cafe au Lait, color sample #57: |access-date=2011-08-08 |archive-date=2017-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730190624/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> 

The first recorded use of ''Cafe Noir'' as a color name in [[English language|English]] was in 1928. <ref> 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</ref>The source of the color "Cafe Noir" displayed below is the ISCC-NBS Color List (see Page C, Coffee, color sample #81). <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |title=ISCC NBS Color List—See Cafe Noir, color sample #81: |access-date=2011-08-08 |archive-date=2017-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730190624/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Meaning of coffee==
* The color ''coffee'' implies someone or something that is lively and active, the way one feels from consuming the [[caffeine]] in coffee.  

==Tones of coffee color comparison chart==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
!Name
!width=100|Color
!HEX Code
!Red
!Green
!Blue
!Hue
!Sat
!Lum
|-
|Café au Lait (Coffee and Milk) (Latte)
|style = "background-color: #a67b5b; color: #ffffff"| 
|#A67B5B
|166
|123
|91
|26°
|30%
|50%
|-
|'''Coffee''' (web color Dark Orange)
|style = "background-color: #6f4e37; color: #ffffff"|
|'''#6F4E37'''
|'''111'''
|'''78'''
|'''55'''
|'''25°'''
|'''34%'''
|'''33%'''
|-
|Deep Coffee (Roast Coffee)
|style = "background-color: #704241; color: #ffffff"|
|#704241
|112
|66
|65
|1°
|27%
|35%
|-
|Café Noir (Black Coffee)
|style = "background-color: #4b3621; color: #ffffff"|
|#4B3621
|75
|54
|33
|30°
|39%
|21%
|}

==Related pages==
*[[List of colors]]

==References==
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== Other websites ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYy47C0Xw0I YouTube—"Coffee Roasting Basics--Color Changes":]

{{Shades of brown}}