Many publications, pictures, and movies often use dark color to pictured outer space. In a contrary, a study in 2002 said that the average color of the universe is a slight beige-ish white. The Washington Post published an article about the discovery and asked people to help named the color. Peter Drum submitted a coffee-like names, because the color shown on the newspaper that he read resembles the color of latte he had that time. Thus the color Cosmic Latte was born.