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Pictured: Pastel brown, the closest color we have a photo of (#836953)
rgb(142, 102, 78)
#8E664E

Mocha Delight #8E664E RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Mocha Delight (#8E664E) is a muted, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 56% red, 40% green and 31% blue (R 142, G 102, B 78). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 23°, 29% saturation and 43% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.158, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 28% magenta, 45% yellow and 44% 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 Delight color codes

#8E664E in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #8E664E Valid CSS
RGB rgb(142, 102, 78) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(23, 29%, 43%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(23, 45%, 56%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(23 31% 44%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 28%, 45%, 44%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(54.55% 0.0628 51.95) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(54.55% 0.0387 0.0495) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(46.98% 14.3 20.26) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(46.98% 24.8 54.8) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5332 0.4065 0.3201) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1728 0.158 0.0935) Valid CSS
Decimal 9332302 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1580. Nearest web-safe color: #996666.

Mix Mocha Delight with other colors

See what #8E664E 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.

Use Mocha Delight 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-delight: #8E664E;
Sass variable$mocha-delight: #8E664E;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-mocha-delight: #8E664E; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'mocha-delight': '#8E664E' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.557, green: 0.4, blue: 0.306)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.557, green: 0.4, blue: 0.306, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="mocha_delight">#FF8E664E</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF8E664E)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #8E664E (5.05:1, AA). Here is how #8E664E does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.05:1 on white
APCA Lc 75
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.16:1 on black
APCA Lc -27
AA LargeTry #946B53

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 Delight

#8E664E 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, #8E664E and #4E8E66 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.

Mocha Delight in a user interface

A sample app screen with #8E664E as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #8E664E as it is. On the dark theme, #8E664E is too hard to read as text (3.52:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A0775F there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Mocha Delight

These schemes turn the hue of #8E664E 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Mocha Delight

Four CSS gradients made from #8E664E. 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, #E8DFDA, #8E664E);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #8E664E, #24170F);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8E4E56, #8E664E, #8E864E);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8E664E, #757B5A, #4E8E66);

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Shades, tints and tones of Mocha Delight

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 Delight sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4EE
  2. 100
    FEE8DC
  3. 200
    F1D4C3
  4. 300
    DDB8A3
  5. 400
    C29981
  6. 500
    A57C63
  7. 600
    8E664E
  8. 700
    6F4C37
  9. 800
    583B29
  10. 900
    402B1D
  11. 950
    261A13

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #8E664E in three color systems that designers and builders use.

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.