Coffee (color)

{{Short description|Brownish color of a roasted coffee bean}}

{{Infobox color |title=Coffee |hex=6F4E37 |source=ISCC-NBS<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm|title=Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names - Ca through Cz|date=November 22, 2012|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122220449/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-c.htm |archive-date=22 November 2012 }}</ref> |isccname=Moderate brown}}

'''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.<ref name=mp>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</ref>

The normalized color coordinates for coffee are identical to Tuscan brown, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1913.<ref>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</ref>

[[File:Roasted coffee beans.jpg|alt=Roasted coffee beans|thumb|Roasted coffee beans]] thumb|'Green' coffee beans before roasting

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==Variations of coffee== ===Café au Lait=== {{Infobox color |title=Café au Lait |hex=A67B5B |source=ISCC-NBS<ref name="auto"/> |isccname=Light brown}}

[[File:Latte art.jpg|thumb|250px|left|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.<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 191; Color Sample of Cafe au Lait: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample A6</ref>

The normalized color coordinates for café au lait are identical to Tuscan tan and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1926<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 206; Color Sample of Tuscan tan: p. 49 Plate 13 Color Sample C8</ref> and 1927,<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 195; Color Sample of French beige: p. 49 Plate 13 Color Sample A7</ref> respectively.

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===Café Noir=== {{Infobox color |title=Café Noir |hex=4B3621 |source=ISCC-NBS<ref name="auto"/> |isccname=Dark yellowish brown}}

250px|thumb|left|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.<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 191; Color Sample of Cafe Noir: p. 39—Plate 8 Color Sample H12</ref>

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==See also== * List of colors

==References== <references/>

==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYy47C0Xw0I YouTube—"Coffee Roasting Basics—Color Changes":]

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