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| x White |
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White is a color, the perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will...
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Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be...
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Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared ...
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Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is...
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Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M (long and medium wavelength) cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S (short-wavelength) cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–580 nm...
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| x Magenta |
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Magenta is a purplish-pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths (complements of magenta have wavelength 500–530 nm). In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime...
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| x Cyan |
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Cyan (pronounced /saɪˈæn/; from Greek κυανoῦς / kyanous, meaning "blue") may be used as the name of any of a number of colors in the blue/green range of the spectrum. In reference to the visible spectrum cyan is used to refer to the color obtained...
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Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow...
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| x Ultramarine |
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Ultramarine is a blue hue. Its name means "beyond the sea" in Latin. It is also the name of the pigment used to produce it. The pigment was originally made from the mineral lapis lazuli.
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Teal, also called Teal blue, is a color that is blue and green mixed together. The color gets its name from the fact that it surrounds the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family. The complementary color of teal is coral pink.
The color...
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| x Tan |
Tan is a brownish, tawny color. The name is derived from tannum, or crushed oak bark, that is used in the process for tanning leather. The resulting process often produces a hide with a 'tan' hue.
The first recorded use of tan as a color name in...
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| x Sienna |
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Sienna is a form of limonite clay most famous in the production of oil paint pigments. Its yellow-brown colour comes from ferric oxides contained within. As a natural pigment, it (along with its chemical cousins ochre and umber) was one of the first...
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| x Chestnut |
Chestnut, also known as Indian red, is a color, a medium brownish shade of red, and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. As Indian red, it is named after the red laterite soil found in India. It is thus an earth tone as well as a red. It is...
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Peach is a color that combines pink and orange colors. This color is named for the pale color of the peach fruit. Like the color apricot, the color called peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color...
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Olive is a dulled, darker yellowish-green color typically seen on green olives. It can be formed by adding a little black to yellow dye or paint. As a color word in the English language, it is unexpectedly old, appearing in late Middle English....
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| x Moss green |
Moss green is a type of green. It is normally a hazy gray-green, close to an earthtone.
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| x Hansa yellow |
Hansa Yellow is a synthetic yellow pigment used in oil paint and acrylic paint. Hansa yellow pigments are lightfast ASTM II and semitransparent. Hansa yellows were first made in Germany just before the World War I.
Hansa yellow is not a modern...
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| x Pazel |
Pazel is considered a pastel tint of the color Hazel, used to describe a shade of eye color.
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| x Aureolin |
Aureolin (sometimes called Cobalt Yellow) is a pigment used in oil and watercolor painting. Its color index name is PY40 (40th entry on list of yellow pigments). It was first made in 1851 and its chemical composition is potassium cobaltinitrite....
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| x Tamarisk |
Tamarisk is a pink color, named after the color of the flowers of the Tamarisk shrub.
List of colors
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| x Fallow |
Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of sandy soil in fallow fields.
Fallow is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of fallow as a color name in English was in the year 1000. Also rooted in this older color, is...
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| x Chartreuse yellow |
Chartreuse Yellow is the color that was traditionally known simply as chartreuse before the web color chartreuse (named after green Chartreuse liqueur) was invented in the mid 1990. Chartreuse Yellow is a green-yellow color. Nowadays this color is...
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| x Arsenic |
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Arsenic is the dark bluish-gray color of the element Arsenic. It is displayed to the right.
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| x Slate gray |
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Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate.
The first recorded use of slate gray as a color name in English was in 1705.
Displayed at right is the web color light slate...
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| x Powder blue |
Powder blue may refer to two different colors. Originally, it referred to a dark blue color, but it has since come to refer to a pale blue color, possibly because the name reminded people of baby powder and so people thought of it as a color similar...
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| x Persian red |
Persian red is a deep reddish orange earth or pigment from the Persian Gulf composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It is also called artificial vermillion.
Displayed at right is the color Persian red.
The first recorded use of...
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| x Red-violet |
Red-violet is the name that, depending on the context, applies to one or another type of non-spectral purple color. In this article we shall adhere—unless otherwise indicated—to the web color standard, which places the hue of red-violet at a certain...
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| x Seal brown |
Seal brown is a rich dark brown color, resembling the color of the dyed fur from the fur seal.
The specifications for the U.S. Army Air Corps Type A-2 jacket (regulation summer flying jacket), adopted in 1931 and the most familiar among all leather...
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| x Sea green |
Sea green is a shade of green that resembles the sea floor as seen from the surface.
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| x Papaya whip |
Papaya whip is a pastel shade of peach.
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| x Olive Drab |
Olive Drab is the color olive shaded green.
Olive Drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for U.S. GI and tanks during World War II. U.S. soldiers often referred to their uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. There are very few...
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| x Sandy brown |
Sandy brown is a pale shade of brown. Sandy brown is one of the web colors. As its name suggests, it is a shade of brown which is similar to the color of some sands.
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| x Bright green |
Bright green is a bright shade of green. It is on the color wheel approximately one-third of the way between chartreuse and harlequin (closer to chartreuse than to harlequin). Bright green represents a visual stimulus of 556 nanometer on the visual...
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| x Fern green |
Fern green is a color that resembles fern. A Crayola crayon named Fern was created in 1998 which is a lighter shade of the color shown at right.
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| x Camouflage green |
Camouflage green is a color that resembles the gray-green color often used by the military and hunters to camouflage themselves. Thus, this color is often known as military green and is related to hunter green.
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| x Navajo white |
Navajo White is a sandy, yellowish off-white color, and derives its name from its similarity to the background color of the Navajo Nation flag. The name "Navajo White" is usually only used when referring to paint. From the 1970s to the 1990s it was...
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| x Sinopia |
Sinopia is a reddish-brown ocher-like earth color pigment used in traditional oil painting. It is used for the cartoon or underpainting for a fresco. It is composed of iron oxides, from a kind of clay or quartz called sinople.
Sinopia was written...
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| x Ecru |
Ecru describes the shade greyish-pale yellow or a light greyish-yellowish brown. It is often used to describe such fabrics as silk and linen in their unbleached state. Ecru comes from the French word écru, which means literally 'raw' or 'unbleached'...
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Bondi blue is a color. It belongs to the cyan family of blues. It is identical to the Crayola crayon color Blue-Green. (See the List of Crayola crayon colors).
Computer design
Oenology
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Gold, also called golden, is an orange-yellow color which is a representation of the color of the element gold.
The web color gold (also referred to as orange-yellow) is sometimes referred to as golden in order to distinguish it from the color...
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| x Maroon |
Maroon is a dark red color.
Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut").
The first recorded use of Maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.
Displayed at right is the web color dark red.
At right is displayed the color rich maroon, i.e....
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| x Grey |
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Grey (international and some parts of the U.S.) or gray (some U.S. only – see spelling differences) describes the tints and shades ranging from black to white. These, including white and black, are known as achromatic colors or neutral colors. In...
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The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm, and has a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. It is numerically halfway between red and yellow in a gamma-compressed RGB colour space The...
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Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red or yellow with black. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color. The Common Germanic adjective *brûnoz, *brûnâ...
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| x Violet |
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As the name of a color, violet (named after the flower violet) is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, approximately 380–420 nm when indigo is recognized as a distinct color,...
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| x Cardinal |
Cardinal is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals (although the color worn by cardinals is actually scarlet). The family of birds takes its name from the color.
The corresponding Pantone Matching System (PMS)...
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Silver is the metallic shade resembling gray, closest to that of polished silver.
The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due...
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Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color combined with some blue, resulting in a tiny degree of purple. It is originally the color of the dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used for slightly bluish-red...
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| x Gules |
In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of vertical lines or else marked with gu. as an abbreviation.
The term gules...
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| x Scarlet |
Scarlet (from the Persian säqirlāt) is a bright red color with a hue that is somewhat toward the orange. It is a pure chroma on the color wheel. It is redder than vermilion. Traditionally, scarlet is the color of flame. It may also refer to the...
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| x Navy blue |
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue almost appears as black. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the...
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| x Burgundy |
Burgundy is a shade of purplish red associated with the Burgundy wine of the same name, which in turn is named after the Burgundy region of France. The color Burgundy is similar to other shades of dark red such as maroon. It is often called wine red...
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Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century, describing the flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. Pink itself is a combination of red and white. Other tints of pink may...
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| x Lavender |
Lavender is a pale tint of violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed at right—it matches the color of the very palest part of the lavender flower; however, the more...
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| x Buff |
Buff is a pale yellow-brown colour that got its name from the colour of buff leather.
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| x Vermilion |
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Vermilion, sometimes spelled vermillion, when found naturally occurring, is an opaque orangish red pigment, used since antiquity, originally derived from the powdered mineral cinnabar. Chemically, the pigment is mercuric sulfide, HgS, and like many...
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| x Bistre |
Bistre (or bister) is both a shade of gray and a shade of brown made from soot, and the general name for a color resembling the pigment. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.
Beechwood was commonly burned...
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| x Burnt sienna |
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Burnt sienna is an iron oxide pigment: a warm mid brown color. Chemically, burnt sienna is formed by burning raw sienna (Terra di Sienna).
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| x Royal blue |
Royal blue describes both a bright shade and a dark range of blue. It is said to have been invented by millers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of which won a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte.
Traditionally, dictionaries define royal...
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Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a reddish-brown mineral which is commonly used as a semi-precious gemstone. Similar to carnelian is sard, which is generally harder and darker. (The difference is not rigidly defined, and the two names are often...
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