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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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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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| x Carnelian |
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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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| x Amaranth |
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Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower (the color normally considered amaranth), but there are other varieties of amaranth...
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| x Saffron |
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Saffron is a shade of golden yellow resembling color of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived.
The color saffron is displayed at right.
Deep saffron (गेरुआ या भगवा) is the color of the upper band of the Indian...
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| x Lime |
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Lime green is a color between yellow and green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel.
Lime green is...
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| x Khaki |
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The name of the color khaki coined in British India comes from the Hindustani language (itself a borrowed form of the Persian and Lurish word khak meaning dust), meaning "dusty, dust covered or earth colored." It has been used by many armies around...
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| x Mauve |
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Mauve (pronounced /ˈmoʊv/, rhymes with "grove"; from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a pale lavender-lilac color, one of many in the range of purples.
Mauve is more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta would be. Many pale wildflowers...
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| x Ochre |
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Ochre or Ocher (pronounced /ˈoʊkər/ OH-kər, from the Greek ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) is term for both a golden-yellow or light yellow brown color and for a form of earth pigment which produces the color. The pigment can also be used to create a reddish...
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| x Claret |
Claret is a name primarily used in British English for red wine from the Bordeaux region of France.
Claret derives from the French clairet, a now uncommon dark rosé and the most common wine exported from Bordeaux until the 18th century. It is a...
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| x Tyrian purple |
Tyrian purple (Greek, πορφύρα, porphyra, Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a purple-red dye first produced by the ancient Phoenicians.
Tyrian purple was expensive: the 4th-century-BC historian...
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| x Prussian blue |
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Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment – one of the first synthetic pigments – which was synthesized for the first time in Berlin around the year 1706. It was named "Preußisch blau" and "Berlinisch Blau" in 1709 by its first trader. Another name for...
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| x Copper |
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
At right is displayed the color copper.
At right is displayed the color pale copper. This is the color that is called copper in Crayola crayons. This color was formulated by Crayola in...
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| x Amber |
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Amber is an orange-yellow color that got its name from the material known as amber. Due to this, amber can refer not to one but to a series of shades of orange, since the natural material varies from nearly yellow when newer to orange or reddish...
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Lilac is a color that is a pale shade of violet. It might also be described as light purple. The actual color of the flower of some Lilac flowers is a much deeper color, equivalent to the color shown below as deep lilac.
At right is displayed the...
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| x Beige |
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Beige is a very pale yellowish-cream color.
The term originates from beige cloth, a cotton fabric left in its natural color. It has since come to be used for a range of light tints chosen for their neutral or cool appearance.
Beginning in the 1920s,...
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| x Emerald |
An emerald color is a shade of green that is particularly light and bright, with a faint bluish cast. The name derives from the typical appearance of the gemstone emerald.
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| x Chartreuse |
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Chartreuse (pronounced /ʃɑrˈtruːz/, English pronunciation: /ʃɑrˈtruːs/, or UK: /ʃɑrˈtrɜːz/; French pronunciation: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) (the web color) is a color halfway between yellow and green that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of...
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| x Fuchsia |
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Fuchsia is a pinkish-purple color named after the flower of the fuchsia plant. Fuchsia is used as an alias for electric magenta.
There is also a somewhat redder and slightly less saturated hue termed fashion fuchsia that is used in women's fashion ...
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| x Puce |
Puce (often misspelled as "puse","peuse" or "peuce") is a color that is defined as ranging from reddish-brown to purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources. Puce is a shade of red. The Oxford...
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| x Venetian red |
Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of scarlet, derived from nearly pure ferric oxide (Fe2O3) of the hematite type. Modern versions are frequently made with synthetic red iron oxide.
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| x Dodger blue |
Dodger blue is a shade of the color blue named for its use in the uniform of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It is also a web color used in the design of web pages. Confusingly, it is not the actual shade of blue worn by the Dodgers. It bears a much closer...
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| x Tenné |
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In heraldry, tenné or tawny is a "stain", a rarely used tincture, an orangish brown colour. Some authors (particularly in England) consider it the same as orange, but that is not the case in continental heraldry.
In South Africa, tenné is...
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| x Palatinate |
Palatinate is a colour associated with the County of Durham in England. It comes in two versions, a Palatinate blue associated with the county and a Palatinate purple associated with the university.
At right is displayed the colour Palatinate blue....
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| x Maize |
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The color maize or corn usually refers to a shade of yellow; it is named for the cereal of the same name—maize. In public usage, maize can be applied to a variety of shades, ranging from light yellow to a dark shade that borders on orange.
"For slow...
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| x Carmine |
Carmine is the general term for a particularly deep red color. Some Rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep red color shown below as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter...
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| x Apricot |
Apricot is a light yellowish-orangeish color that attempts to represent the color of apricots. Actually, it is somewhat paler than actual apricots and like the color peach it seems to have been invented in order to have at hand a pleasant pastel...
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| x Viridian |
Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed more of green than blue. Specifically, it is a dark shade of spring green, the color between green and cyan on the...
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Sepia is a dark brown-grey color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia.
The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Greek σηπία, sēpía, cuttlefish.
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| x Cobalt blue |
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Cobalt blue is a cool, slightly desaturated blue color, historically made using cobalt salts. The world leading manufacturer of cobalt blue in the 19th century was Blaafarveværket in Norway, led by Benjamin Wegner. Germany was also famous for...
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| x Cerise |
Cerise (pronounced /səˈriːs/ or /səˈriːz/; French pronunciation: [səˈʀiz]) is a deep to vivid purplish red.
According to Maerz and Paul in their Dictionary of Color, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in 1858. However,...
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| x Aquamarine |
Aquamarine is a color that is a tint of cyan. It is named after the mineral aquamarine, a gemstone mainly found in granite rocks. The first recorded use of aquamarine as a color name in English was in 1598.
Displayed at right is the color medium...
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| x Goldenrod |
Goldenrod is a color that resembles the goldenrod plant. A Crayola crayon with this name and color, although a lighter version, was created in 1958.
Displayed at right is the color goldenrod.
Dark goldenrod is a color that resembles the color...
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| x Cornflower blue |
Cornflower blue, a shade of azure, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue.
Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are among the few "blue" flowers that are truly blue, most "blue" flowers being a darker blue-purple.
Light...
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| x Flax |
Flax (also known as Light Goldenrod) is a pale yellowish-gray color named after flax seeds. It is similar to the color mustard.
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| x Light blue |
Light Blue is a web color on the official list of web colors. Sometimes the color light blue is erroneously confused with baby blue.
The web color light blue is displayed in the color box at right.
The first recorded use of "light blue" as a color...
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At right is displayed the color baby blue. The color baby blue as shown here is identical to the web color light cyan. Baby blue is known as one of the pastel colors.
The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.
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| x Heliotrope |
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Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower.
Another name for this color is vivid Lavender.
The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.
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In the 1946 novel The...
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| x Russet |
Russet is a brown color with a reddish tinge.
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| x Aqua |
Aqua is a shade of the color cyan. It is identical to the color electric cyan, one of the primary colors of the CMYK color space. It is precisely halfway between green and blue on the color wheel.
In traditional print media, "aqua" is short for...
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| x Taupe |
Taupe (pronounced /ˈtoʊp/) refers to a dark grayish-brown color. The word "taupe" derives from the Latin name for the European Mole, Talpa europaea.
Originally, this referred only to the average color of the French mole, but like the colors pink and...
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| x Cosmic latte |
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Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the average color of the universe, given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University.
In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they...
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| x Safety orange |
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Safety orange (also known as blaze orange, vivid orange, Caltrans orange, or Omaha orange) is a hue. Its deeper, more saturated shade is known as international orange. Safety orange is used to set objects apart from their surroundings, particularly...
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| x Indian Yellow |
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Indian yellow, also called euxanthin or euxanthine, is a transparent yellow pigment used in oil paint. Chemically it is a magnesium euxanthate, the magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. It is a clear, deep and luminescent yellow pigment. Its color is...
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| x Feldgrau |
Feldgrau (field grey) was the colour of the field uniform of the German Army from late 1907 until 1945, and of some post-war uniforms of the West German Bundeswehr and the East German NVA armies. Metaphorically, Feldgrau used to refer to the armies...
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| x Denim |
Denim is a shade of blue that resembles the shade of blue used in Denim.
Crayola created this color in 1993 as one of the new 16 colors
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List of colors
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| x Wisteria |
Wisteria is a pale tint of violet, named after the Wisteria flower. Crayola introduced this color in 1993.
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Eggplant is a dark purple or brownish-purple color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine (the French and British English word for eggplant).
The pinkish-purple color shown...
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| x Seashell |
Seashell is an off-white color that resembles the average seashell.
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| x Midnight Blue |
Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue, close to black, that was named for its darkness. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of Indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. There are two different shades of...
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| x Selective yellow |
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Selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps. Under ECE regulations, headlamps were formerly permitted to be either white or selective yellow — in France, selective yellow was mandatory until 1993.
ECE Regulation 48 currently requires headlamps...
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| x Spring green |
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Spring green is a color that is the color on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram it corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. Spring green...
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Rose madder, sometimes referred to as Rose Madder Genuine is the crushed root of the Common Madder plant (Rubia tinctorium). The ancient Egyptians used rose madder to create pinkish rose-colored textile dyes. The Color Index name used by paint and...
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| x Alizarin |
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Alizarin is an organic compound that is historically important as a prominent dye. It is an anthraquinone originally derived from the root of the madder plant. In 1869, it became the first natural pigment to be duplicated synthetically. Alizarin is...
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| x Pumpkin |
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Pumpkin is a color that resembles pumpkins.
The first recorded use of Pumpkin as a color name in English was in 1922.
Food
Holidays
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| x Mustard |
Mustard is a color that resembles culinary mustard. It is similar to the color Flax. This color was popular during the mid-1970s and is regaining popularity.
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| x Salmon |
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Salmon is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh. Actual salmon color varies from almost white to deep red, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill...
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The color salmon pink comes in two shades, light salmon pink and salmon pink.
The color light salmon pink is displayed at the right. Light salmon pink is a light pink color that resembles the color salmon. The name is derived from the flesh color of...
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