Nomi dei colori

The color canary (light greenish yellow) is shown in the color box. The first recorded use of canary yellow as a color name in English was in 1789.

Golden yellow is the color halfway between amber and yellow on the RGB color wheel. It is a color that is 87.5% yellow and 12.5% red. The first recorded use of golden yellow as a color name in English was in the year 1597. Golden Yellow is one of the colors of the United States Air Force, along with Ultramarine Blue.

Mimi Pink is a very pale shade of purplish pink.

Il giallo scuolabus è un colore il cui nome deriva dagli scuolabus statunitensi, che adottano appunto questa particolare tonalità di giallo sin dal 1939. Fu il professor Frank W. Cyr, in una conferenza tenuta nell'aprile di quell'anno a New York per dettare le norme costruttive degli scuolabus, a indicare l'utilizzo di questa particolare tonalità di giallo per i mezzi, dandogli indirettamente anche il nome. Il giallo fu scelto perché il contrasto con le scritte nere è particolarmente visibile, anche in assenza di una buona illuminazione.

The color was approved by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Chancellor in October 2013. This is a shade of gold identified by the university for use in their printed publications.

Portland Orange is the color of light emitted by the dont walk phase of pedestrian crossing signals in the United States and Canada. The color was chosen to avoid confusion with regular traffic lights in conditions of poor visibility. Its chromaticity is specified by the Institute of Transportation Engineers in that body's technical standards, along with lunar white for the walk lights. Its application is stipulated in the U.S. federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Various jurisdictional standards also require Portland Orange for dont walk signs. The color can be created with some LEDs, and the ITE specifies the precision of its wavelength to 3 nanometers. In practice, the most brilliant color of gaseous tubing is similar to Portland Orange.

Coquelicot is a shade of red. The term was originally a French vernacular name for the wild corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas, which is distinguished by its bright red color, and orange tint. It eventually passed into English usage as the name of a color based upon that of the flower. The first recorded use of this usage was in the year 1795. Claude Monet painted Les Coquelicots or Poppies Blooming in 1873.

Aureolin (sometimes called cobalt yellow) is a pigment sparingly used in oil and watercolor painting. Its color index name is PY40 (40th entry on list of yellow pigments). It was first made in 1831 by Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer in Breslau characterizing it as "Doppelsalze" or double-salts and its chemical composition is potassium cobaltinitrite. He characterized it again and wrote more extensively about it in 1842, naming it "Salpetrichtsaures Kobaltoxydkali". In 1851-1852, Edouard Saint-Evre synthesized cobalt yellow independently. He is credited with the introduction of cobalt yellow as an artists pigment. The investigation by Gates gives the exact modern procedures for the preparation of aureolin and also the methods for its identification in paintings.

Icterine is a colour, described as yellowish, jaundice-yellow or marked with yellow.It is derived from Ancient Greek ikteros (jaundice), via the Latin ictericus.It is used as an adjective in the names of birds with yellowish plumage to describe their appearance, including the icterine warbler and icterine greenbul.

Cyclamen is a color that is a representation of the color of cyclamens. It is named after the flower. The year of the first recorded use of cyclamen as a color name in English is currently unknown.

Il bianco anti-flash (o Munsell) è una tipologia brillante di bianco utilizzata per dipingere alcuni bombardieri strategici statunitensi, britannici e sovietici. Ad esempio, i Vickers Valiant e gli Avro Vulcan prodotti verso la fine degli anni 1950 erano tipicamente di tale colore, che venne adottato anche per le superfici inferiori dei primissimi Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. L'intento del bianco anti-flash era quello di proteggere maggiormente l'aereo e il suo equipaggio dalle radiazioni termiche prodotte dalle esplosioni nucleari.

Il giallo citrino è una gradazione di giallo. Il termine "citrino" deriva dal latino citrus (in greco κίτρινος), nome che indica gli alberi di cedro (Citrus medica) dai frutti giallognoli.Il colore si ritrova anche come riferimento per un tipo di cristallo di quarzo, il quarzo citrino, che assume la tipica tonalità giallo-brunastro per via di impurezze di ferro trivalente.Per tingere i tessuti di questa tonalità nel XIX secolo era previsto l'uso di Serratula tinctoria o allume.In medicina, è il colore dell'urina concentrata e del versamento pleurico.

Horizon blue is a colour name which is well remembered because it was used for the blue-grey uniforms of French metropolitan troops from 1915 through 1921. This name for a shade of blue which refers to the indefinable colour which separates the sky from the earth, had been previously used in the world of fashion, and has been since then.It had also served as an emblem of political groups prevailing upon the army of the Great War.

Oxblood or ox-blood is a dark shade of red. It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues.The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning (but also "ox blood") is used in various contexts in English, but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in Chinese ceramics. The name is often used in fashion, especially for shoes. The term oxblood can be used to describe a range of colors from red to reddish-purple to nearly black with red, brown and blue undertones.

Lo YInMn Blue (Y per l'ittrio, In per l'indio e Mn per il manganese), noto anche come Mas Blue, è un pigmento inorganico blu scoperto per caso dallo studente ricercatore Andrew Smith nel laboratorio del professor Mas Subramanian presso l'Università statale dell'Oregon nel 2009. Crayola, attraverso un concorso indetto nel 2017, lo ha rinominato e commercializzato come Bluetiful.Si tratta dell'ultima tonalità blu ad essere stata sintetizzata, a distanza di più di tre secoli dal blu di Prussia (o di Berlino) del 1706, di due dal blu cobalto (o blu di Dresda) del 1802 e circa 150 anni dopo il blu di Brema del 1858. Lo YInMn Blue è considerato a tutti gli effetti un colore puro, ovvero un colore senza aggiunta di pigmenti neri o bianchi. L'eccezionale intensità del colore è paragonabile a quella dell'International Klein Blue.

UCLA Blue is the dark azure color used in association with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It is described as a deep sky blue and is accompanied by a sun gold, UCLA Gold. Both are colloquially referred to as "blue and gold." UCLA Blue was approved by the Chancellor of UCLA in March 2004 for use by the school's academic and administrative units. While this was distinct from True Blue adopted by UCLA Athletics in the early 2000s, the athletic department aligned to use UCLA Blue in 2021 when Nike and the Jordan Brand took over apparel rights for the Bruin varsity sports teams. The hexadecimal value of the color is 2774AE. UCLA Blue is a Pantone color.

Il cobalto è una gradazione fredda e desaturata del blu, storicamente creata attraverso la sinterizzazione del monossido di cobalto con l'ossido di alluminio a 1200 °C. È stata scoperta da Louis-Jacques Thenar nel 1802.

Isabella è un colore di tonalità tra il giallo e il marrone. Si tratta di una variazione del mantello baio del cavallo, e deriva dal gene crema, che diluisce il pigmento rosso, lasciando inalterato il nero di crini e zampe, tipici del manto baio. In inglese viene detto buckskin (trad. pelle di daino).

Majorelle Blue is a clear, intense, fresh shade of blue. In 1924, the French artist Jacques Majorelle constructed his largest art work, the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco, and painted the garden walls, fountains, features and villa this very intense shade of blue, for which he trademarked the name Majorelle Blue. He had noticed the colour in Moroccan tiles, in Berber burnouses, and around the windows of buildings such as kasbahs and native adobe homes.

Oxford Blue is the official colour of the University of Oxford. The official Oxford branding guidelines set its definition as Pantone 282, equivalent to the hex code #002147. With a hue code of 212, this colour is a very dark tone of azure.