Nomi dei colori

Il nero è un colore con luminosità teoricamente nulla, senza tinta (per cui è detto "colore acromatico").È un colore neutro in quanto non creabile dal nulla.

Cadmium yellow is a pigment used in painting, made from cadmium sulfide. It has been used for centuries by artists due to its bright and durable properties. The color shown here with hex code #FFF600 resembles this cadmium yellow pigment.

Lemon yellow was a Crayola color from 1949 to 1990.

Il senape è un colore, così chiamato perché richiama la salsa omonima. È una tonalità di giallo.

In Western culture, pastel pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys.

Mikado yellow is a shade of yellow that appears in the national flags of Colombia and Kazakhstan. It was also formerly used for Lincoln automobiles and is associated with various dyes and colorings.

Mais è una tonalità di giallo che ricorda il colore del mais.

Carnelian (or Cornell red) is a color named after the carnelian variety of the mineral chalcedony. This semi-precious gemstone is noted for its rich shade of reddish-brown. The first recorded use of Carnelian as a color name in English was in 1899. Cornell's color is referred to as Cornelian (an alternate spelling of the mineral carnelian) in the World Almanac of 1892 and the Living Church Annual and Whittaker's Churchman's Almanac of 1896.

Rosso Falun (in svedese Falu rödfärg, pronuncia ) è un colore rosso scuro usato frequentemente in Svezia, Finlandia e Norvegia per verniciare le case ed i fienili di legno.

Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789.

Marrone foca è un marrone molto profondo e scuro, che ricorda il colore del manto delle foche.

Fulvous is a colour, sometimes described as dull orange, brownish-yellow or tawny; it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch. As an adjective it is used in the names of many species of birds, and occasionally other animals, to describe their appearance. It is also used as in mycology to describe fungi with greater colour specificity, specifically the pigmentation of the surface cuticle, the broken flesh and the spores en masse. The first recorded use of fulvous as a colour name in English was in the year 1664. Fulvous in English is derived from the Latin "fulvus", a term that can be recognised in the scientific binomials of several species, and can provide a clue to their colouration.

L'International Klein Blue (IKB) è una tonalità di colore blu oltremare molto profondo messa a punto dall'artista francese Yves Klein.

The official colors of the university and used by the athletic teams are UNH Blue and white. UNH Blue is a dark blue matching Pantone color 287. New Hampshire is known as the "Granite State." White resembles the White Mountains of New Hampshire, located an hour north of Durham. The University of New Hampshire campus is located about a mile from the Great Bay estuary, which runs out to the Atlantic Ocean. Blue resembles the Atlantic Ocean. New Hampshire Colors written by E Y Blewett '26

Il bruno bitume, detto anche asfalto o mummia è una sorta di pigmento bruno, in realtà una resina fossile (asfalto) che impregna una roccia calcarea facilmente fusibile.Il bruno bitume non secca mai e questo ha determinato vari problemi ai dipinti (principalmente dal XIV secolo al XVII secolo) nei quali è stato applicato.

Smoky black or black carrying cream is a coat color of horses which has the same phenotype as black. Smoky black is produced by the action of a heterozygous (single copy) cream gene on an underlying black coat color. Therefore, smoky black is a member of the cream family of coat color dilutions, and found in horse populations that have other cream-based colors such as palomino, buckskin, perlino, cremello and smoky cream. All smoky blacks must have at least one parent with the cream gene, and a smoky black can only be verified through DNA testing or parentage. Smoky black has been mistaken for faded black, dark bay or brown, grullo or even liver chestnut.

Il blu egiziano è un pigmento inorganico sintetico. È un tetrasilicato di rame e calcio (CaCuSi4O10 o CaOCuO(SiO2)4.

Dark purple is a dark tone of purple.

Tufts Blue is the tone of azure blue used in association with Tufts University. Tufts University Relations defines "Tufts Blue" as corresponding to the Pantone color of 279 or the process color of 70c 30m 0y 0k.

The color dark lava is the color of lava that has cooled and begun to congeal into igneous rock. The normalized color coordinates for dark lava are identical to taupe, which came into use as a color name in English in the early 19th century;