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Pictured: Pale brown, the closest color we have a photo of (#987654)
rgb(157, 118, 81)
#9D7651

Mocha #9D7651 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Mocha (#9D7651) is a muted, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 62% red, 46% green and 32% blue (R 157, G 118, B 81). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 29°, 32% saturation and 47% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.207, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 25% magenta, 48% yellow and 38% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Mocha color codes

#9D7651 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #9D7651 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(157, 118, 81) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(29, 32%, 47%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(29, 48%, 62%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(29 32% 38%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 25%, 48%, 38%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(59.57% 0.0713 64.26) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(59.57% 0.031 0.0642) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(52.94% 12.3 26.58) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(52.94% 29.29 65.17) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5922 0.4689 0.3385) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2187 0.2072 0.1063) Valid CSS
Decimal 10319441 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2072. Nearest web-safe color: #996666.

Mix Mocha with other colors

See what #9D7651 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintMocha and red paintOpen in the color mixer
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PrintMocha and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMocha blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Mocha in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--mocha: #9D7651;
Sass variable$mocha: #9D7651;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-mocha: #9D7651; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'mocha': '#9D7651' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.616, green: 0.463, blue: 0.318)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.616, green: 0.463, blue: 0.318, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="mocha">#FF9D7651</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF9D7651)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #9D7651 (5.14:1, AA). Here is how #9D7651 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.08:1 on white
APCA Lc 68
AA LargeTry #966F4A
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.14:1 on black
APCA Lc -34
AA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Mocha

#9D7651 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

With deuteranopia, #9D7651 and #519D76 look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Mocha

Named after a port

Mocha is a port town on the Red Sea coast of Yemen, also spelled Mokha. From the 16th century through the 19th, it was a major market for coffee. The beans did not grow there. They came from Ethiopia and inland Yemen and were shipped out from its harbor. The town's name stuck to the coffee and later to the mocha latte, as the Wikipedia article on Mokha tells.

Which mocha

Our #9D7651 comes from the xkcd survey of 2010, where web readers named colors on their own screens. Wikipedia's alphabetical list has a lighter, greyer mocha at #BEA493. Neither is an official standard. Close browns here are café au lait and coffee. Milk chocolate from the same survey is darker.

Mocha in a user interface

A sample app screen with #9D7651 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #9D7651 as it is. On the light theme, #9D7651 is too hard to read as text (4.08:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #966F4A there (4.50:1). On the dark theme, #9D7651 is too hard to read as text (4.35:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A07853 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Mocha

These schemes turn the hue of #9D7651 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#9D7651#51789D

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#9D5152this#9D7651#9D9C51

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#9D7651#519D76#76519D

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#9D7651#519D9C#51529D

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#9D7651#789D51#51789D#76519D

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#9D7651#529D51#51789D#9C519D

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#433323#7A5C3F#AD855F#C9AF96#E5D8CD

Gradients with Mocha

Four CSS gradients made from #9D7651. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #EBE3DB, #9D7651);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #9D7651, #281C10);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #9D5152, #9D7651, #9D9C51);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #9D7651, #7F8B64, #519D76);

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Shades, tints and tones of Mocha

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Mocha sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5EC
  2. 100
    FDE9D7
  3. 200
    F1D5BD
  4. 300
    DCBA9A
  5. 400
    C19B76
  6. 500
    9D7651
  7. 600
    88633F
  8. 700
    6F4D2D
  9. 800
    573C20
  10. 900
    402B17
  11. 950
    261A10

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #9D7651 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 8001 Ochre brown#9C6B30, very close (ΔE 3.9)Tailwind CSSyellow-700 #A16207, close (ΔE 6.5)CSS color namesgray #808080, close (ΔE 7.1)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of brown or search the color library.