45 Color names for "Colors Named After Animals"

Beaver is a shade of brown representative of the color of a beaver. At a hue of 22, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of beaver as a color name in English was in 1705. The color "beaver" was formulated as one of the Crayola colors in 1998. Etymologically, it's believed that the words "brown" and "beaver" ultimately stem from the same root word in English.

Mantis is a color that is a representation of the color of a praying mantis. The first use of mantis as a color name in English was when it was included as one of the colors on the Xona.com color list, promulgated in 2001.

Seal brown is a rich dark brown color, resembling the color of the dyed fur from the fur seal.

Sepia is a reddish-brown 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. Sepia ink was commonly used for writing in Greco-Roman civilization. It remained in common use as an artist's drawing material until the 19th century.

The color Japanese carmine, shown in the color box, is called enji-iro (臙脂色) in Japanese, meaning 'cochineal/rouge color.' The term enji (臙脂) refers to rouge, the cosmetic, which historically was made from a dye produced by the cochineal insect, known as enji-mushi (臙脂虫). The name enji is derived from Yan, an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty, as the use of rouge in China is believed to have originated there and was later adopted in Japan.

Process yellow (also called pigment yellow or printer's yellow), also known as canary yellow, is one of the three colors typically used as subtractive primary colors, along with magenta and cyan. Canary yellow is derived from the colour of an average canary bird, though canaries can vary in colour from dark yellow to light pink. Process yellow is not an RGB color, and in the CMYK color model there is no fixed conversion from CMYK primaries to RGB. Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure yellow ink. The first recorded use of canary yellow as a color name in English was in 1789.

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.

Sand Dollar is the color that was chosen as the "2006 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-1612 TPX—Deep Taupe.

Ruddy blue represents the coloring of the beak of the ruddy duck.

Camel is a color that resembles the color of the hair of a camel. The first recorded use of camel as a color name in English was in 1916. The normalized color coordinates for camel are identical to fallow, wood brown and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, 1886, and 1920, respectively.

Coyote brown, also known as nutria, is a color, often used in military camouflage.Coyote brown belongs to the dull yellow color subspectrum.

Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness). Used first in English in the 13th century, the word vermilion came from the Old French word vermeillon, which was derived from vermeil, from the Latin vermiculus – the diminutive of the Latin word vermis for worm. The name originated because it had a similar color to the natural red dye made from an insect, Kermes vermilio, which was widely used in Europe. The first recorded use of "vermilion" as a color name in English was in 1289.

Duck blue is a moderate greenish blue.

The color tang blue is a deep tone of azure that is the color of royal blue tang fish.

This color is the medium tone of vermilion called vermilion on the Plochere color list, which was formulated in 1948 and is used widely by interior designers.

Light taupe (dark tan) is the light tone of taupe that is the color called taupe in Crayola colored pencils.

The color box shows the color called Puce from the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color.

The color peacock blue is a deep greenish blue, from the iridescent color of a peacock.As a color between blue and cyan, peacock blue has been used as the process-blue ink in four-color printing. Kelly Moore Paint's "color of the year" for 2019 was their peacock blue.

"Tyrian purple" is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated "purpura". Other contemporary English names for purpura are "imperial purple" and "royal purple". The English name "purple" itself originally denominated the specific color purpura. Purpura is the color of a dye extracted from a mollusk found on the shores of the city of Tyre in ancient Phoenicia (contemporarily in Lebanon), which color in classical antiquity was a symbol of royalty and political authority because only the very wealthy could afford it, including the Roman Emperors. Therefore, Tyrian purple was also denominated "imperial purple".

Dark salmon is a darker shade of the color salmon. Like the related web colors light salmon and salmon, it is commonly used in HTML and CSS for web design.

Robin egg blue, also called eggshell blue, is a shade of cyan (bluish-green color), approximating the shade of the eggs laid by the American robin. The first recorded use of robin egg blue as a color name in English was in 1873.

Lion is a color that is a representation of the average color of the fur of a lion. The lion is a feline top predator found in Africa and India. The lion was poetically called the king of beasts. The first recorded use of lion as a color name in English was in 1551.

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.

Teal is a greenish-blue color. Its name comes from that of a bird—the Eurasian teal (Anas crecca)—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or gray. The complementary color of teal is pink. It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987. In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half.

The color shown is called Puce in the Pantone color list. It is sourced from the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce.

Spanish carmine is the color that is called Carmin (the Spanish word for "carmine") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Coral red is a vibrant color, often described as a mix of red and orange tones.

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.

Carmine is a term for deep red colors that are slightly purplish but closer to red than crimson. Some rubies have a rich carmine color. The dark red shown here represents the raw pigment, while lighter and brighter shades come from processing it. The first recorded use of "carmine" as a color name in English was in 1523.

Crimsonis a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple. It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose. It is the national color of Nepal. The color #DC143C, known as Crimson, was added to the X11 color system in 1999. It is part of the extended set of colors introduced with updates to the original X11 color specifications.

The rich carmine color tone matches the shade shown as carmine in the 1930 book "A Dictionary of Color". Also known as Chinese carmine, this color is commonly referred to as carmine in fashion and interior design.

Taupe gray is a muted, warm gray color with brown undertones.

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.

Teal blue is a medium tone of teal with more blue. The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927 . The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. Teal was subsequently a heavily used color in the 1950s and 1960s. Teal blue is also the name of a Crayola crayon color (color #113) from 1990 to 2003.

Taupe brown is a very dark shade of tan that almost appears brown. It is shown as the color taupe brown in ISCC-NBS color sample #46 and is also known as medium taupe.

Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades. Taupe is a vague color term which may refer to almost any grayish brown or brownish gray, but true taupe is difficult to pinpoint as brown or gray. According to the Dictionary of Color, the first use of "taupe" as a color name in English was in the early 19th century; but the earliest citation recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1911. In 1846 it was claimed that "All shades of grey are fashionable en neglige, particularly pearl grey, iron grey, and taupe."

Salmon pink (or salmon in Crayola crayons) was introduced by Crayola in 1949.

Teal green is a darker shade of teal with more green. It is a variable color averaging a dark bluish-green that is green, darker, and stronger than invisible green or pine tree. Teal green is most closely related to the Crayola crayon color Deep Space Sparkle.

Salmon is a range of pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh. The first recorded use of salmon as a color name in English was in 1776. The actual color of salmon flesh varies from almost white to light orange, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; salmon raised on fish farms are given non-synthetic or artificial coloring in their food.

Light salmon resembles the color salmon, but is lighter, not to be confused with dark salmon, which resembles salmon pink but is darker.

Coral pink is a pinkish color. The complementary color of coral pink is teal. The first recorded use of coral pink as a color name in English was in 1892. Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by Pantone, as the RGB, hex and HTML color table showed the same color as being reddish, standing against popular belief of pinkish. Still today, some people call Coral Red as Coral Pink due to this old attribution. The normalized color coordinates for coral pink are identical to Congo pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1912.

Living Coral is the color that was chosen as the "2019 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

The web color light coral is a pinkish-light orange color, also recognized as an HTML/CSS and X11 color name.

Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a "dark reddish brown." The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".