Mocha (#967969) is a medium, muted orange hue. Mocha is a soft, milky brown; Pantone chose Mocha Mousse as its 2025 colour of the year.
In RGB it is made of 150 red, 121 green and 105 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 21° with 18% saturation and 50% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 60% with a chroma of 0.043. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 19% magenta, 30% yellow and 41% black.
As a text color on white, Mocha has a contrast ratio of 4.01:1, which passes AA only for large text and UI parts. On black it reaches 5.24:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Mocha as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 37 for black text and Lc -73 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #668595, close to slate gray. Colors that look most similar are gray, rose gold, slate gray. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 3), so its meaning mostly survives.