Nombres de los colores

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan,a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance. Beige began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855–60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisacode in 1877. The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887.

El azul de Prusia (en alemán: Preußisch Blau o Berliner Blau - «azul berlinés») es una sustancia de color azul oscuro empleada a menudo como pigmento en pintura y que antiguamente era frecuentemente usada en los planos (llamados en inglés blueprints, de donde tomó el nombre; en español se les llama cianotipo).El pigmento denominado azul de Prusia fue descubierto accidentalmente por el químico Heinrich Diesbach en Berlín en 1704 y esta es la razón por la que se denomina a veces azul de Berlín.​ También se le ha llamado azul de París o azul de Milori. Posee diversos nombres químicos, algunos de ellos son: ferrocianuro de hierro(III), ferrocianuro férrico, hexacianoferrato(II) de hierro(III) y hexacianoferrato férrico. Es muy común que se denomine abreviadamente como PB.​ Su fórmula química abreviada es: Fe7C18N18. El nombre azul de Prusia se comenzó a utilizar en el siglo XVIII por ser el colorante empleado para teñir las telas de los uniformes militares prusianos.​

Blanco es un color acromático, de claridad máxima y oscuridad nula. Perceptualmente es la consecuencia de la fotorrecepción de una luz intensa constituida por todas las longitudes de onda del espectro visible, por tres longitudes de onda (larga, media y corta) o por dos longitudes de onda complementarias. Se asemeja al color de la nieve, aunque otras sustancias de máxima reflectancia, como la magnesia, el color yeso y la baritina (sulfato de bario), resultan ejemplos más específicos del blanco.​ La denominación de «blanco» incluye a las coloraciones similares al blanco estándar, denominadas blanquecinas o blancuzcas, que poseen una ligera sugerencia de saturación y matiz.​

El british racing green («verde británico de competición»), también conocido como 'BRG', es el color verde tradicional de los automóviles de carreras británicos.

Spring green is a web color, common to X11 and HTML.

Fire brick is the web color, a medium dark shade of scarlet/red.

Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.

Gainsboro is a pale tone of gray. Prior to standardization as a web color, Gainsboro was included as one of the X11 color names. It was, however, absent from the original 1987 version of the list, but present in Paul Raveling's version which added, amongst other things, "ight and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples".

The deep tone of electric blue is the color called bleu électrique in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

The deep tone of mauve is referred to as mauve by Pourpre.com, a color list that is widely popular in France.

  Yellow-green is a dull medium shade of chartreuse.   Before the X11 colors were formulated in 1987, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (chartreuse green). Now, the term "yellow-green" is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.

The color shown is called Puce in the Pourpre.com color list, which is widely popular in France. This is the original puce, from which all other tones of puce ultimately derive.

Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold". The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold. The word gold as a color name was first used in 1400 and in 1423 to refer to blond hair. Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold tone, or gold ground when describing a solid gold background.

Herrumbre (del latín ferrūmen, ferrūmĭnis​) es un color naranja rojizo, semioscuro y de saturación moderada, que se basa en el aspecto de la alteración del hierro que se conoce por el mismo nombre (oxidación corrosiva que lleva a la formación de hidróxido férrico por efecto del aire húmedo). Se le ha llamado también pardo herrumbre, herrín, orín, robín , pardo orín y oxido.​ En pocas palabras, La denominación de color «herrumbre» abarca a una familia de colores del color del hierro oxidado.El color herrumbre no es un color específico, sin embargo existe una tonalidad de este que suele aparecer en catálogos cromáticos.​

Cocoa brown, with a hue of 25, is classified as an orange-brown.

Carolina blue (occasionally referred to as Tar Heel blue) is the shade of blue used as one of the official school colors of the University of North Carolina. The name is derived from the popular usage of "Carolina" to refer to the university. For clarity in branding and marketing, UNC Creative has defined the color as Pantone 542 and declared the CMYK (60, 19, 1, 4). This CMYK results in a Hex code of #62C6F2. However, the university has chosen the hex value of #4B9CD3 as their web safe Carolina Blue due to contrast issues and Section 508 web requirements. None of the colors match the selected Pantone 542 which would be a hex value of #6699C2. The North Carolina Tar Heels athletics department has their own formulation for Carolina blue. Carolina athletics blue has the same CMYK color representation as the university's version of Carolina blue, but the RGB representation for Carolina athletics blue is (123, 175, 212). This results in a Hex code of #7BAFD4, the official matching hex code for Pantone 542 C.

The color #8B0000, known as Dark Red, was introduced as part of the X11 color system in 1987.

The color New York pink is a dark, desaturated yellow-toned shade of pink. The color name New York pink for this dark tone of pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

The web color light cyan is a very pale green shade of cyan.

The web color coral is a shade of orange. Other modern color schemes use various shades of orange or red. The first recorded use of coral as a color name in English was in 1513.