Nomi dei colori

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.

Il blu di Prussia (in tedesco: Preußisch Blau), noto anche come blu di Berlino, è un pigmento blu scuro usato nelle vernici e un tempo nei disegni tecnici. Venne scoperto casualmente a Berlino nel 1706 da Diesbach e Dippel. Ha diversi nomi chimici, tra cui “ferrocianuro ferrico”, “ferricianuro ferroso”, “esacianoferrato(II) di ferro(III)”, “esacianoferrato(III) di ferro(II)” e “esacianoferrato ferrico”. Il nome deriva da motivazioni storiche: deriva dall'utilizzo della tintura nelle divise del Regno di Prussia.

Il bianco è un colore con elevata luminosità ma senza tinta (per cui è detto "colore acromatico").Più precisamente è dato dalla sintesi additiva di tutti i colori dello spettro visibile (o di tre colori primari, ad esempio rosso, verde e blu oppure ciano, magenta e giallo). Da questo punto di vista, può essere considerato l'opposto del nero, anch'esso senza tinta, ma dato dalla sintesi sottrattiva di tutti i colori dello spettro visibile (o di tre colori primari). In questo senso, si dice comunemente che il bianco è dato dalla "combinazione di tutti i colori", mentre il nero è dato dall'"assenza di colore".I monitor solitamente hanno un controllo della temperatura di colore, e permettono all'utente di selezionare la temperatura (solitamente tra alcuni valori fissi) della luce emessa quando il computer produce il segnale elettrico corrispondente al "bianco".

Il verde da corsa britannico (British racing green abbreviato in BRG in lingua inglese), o verde inglese, è una gradazione di verde che prende il nome dal suo uso come colore nazionale nelle competizioni automobilistiche, dove rappresenta il Regno Unito.

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.

Ruggine è una tonalità di rosso - arancione - marrone che assomiglia al colore del ferro ossidato (ruggine).

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.