114 Color names for "Deep Shades"

Cadmium yellow is sometimes mixed with viridian pigment to give a bright, pale green mixture called cadmium green. The color shown here with hex code #006B3C resembles this cadmium green mixture.

Deep lemon is the deep tone of lemon that is called "lemon" by Pantone. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #13-0752 TPX—Lemon.

CRIMSON FLAME along with Capstone Gray and Victory White is primary color of the Unversity of Alabama

Cardinal red and steel grey are the colors of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is also the official color of athletic team The Engineer and official mascot Tim Beaver.

The color candy apple red is not mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Colorby Maerz and Paul.However, a color called candy pink is mentioned, the first recorded use of which as a color name is recorded as being in 1926.

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.

The color Thulian pink is also called Thulite pink; the first recorded use of Thulite pink as a color name in English was in 1912. The term Thulian pink refers to the land of Thule, the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Another name for this color is first lady. The first use of first lady as a color name in English was in 1948 when the Plochere Color System, (a color system that is widely used by interior designers) was inaugurated in 1948. The hex code for Thulian pink is identical to that of China pink and Liseran purple. The first recorded use of liseran purple as a color name in English was in 1912.

Persian pink is a bright, purplish pink. The first recorded use of Persian pink as a color name in English dates back to 1923.

Chinese red or China red is the name used for the vermilion shade used in Chinese lacquerware. The shade of the color can vary from dark to light depending upon how the pigment is made and how the lacquer was applied. Chinese red was originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar, but beginning in about the 8th century it was made more commonly by a chemical process combining mercury and sulfur. Vermilion has significance in Taoist culture, and is regarded as the color of life and eternity. "Chinese red" appears in English in 1924.

Duke blue is a dark blue color used in association with Duke University.

The color light deep pink, a bright purplish pink, is called deep pink light on the Xona.com Color List.

The color satin sheen gold is displayed. This is the name of the color of the Starfleet command personnel uniform worn by Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the TV show and movies Star Trek.

The adjacent box displays the generic tone of international orange used by military contractors and in engineering generally. The source of this color is Federal Standard 595, a U.S. federal government standard set up in 1956 for paint colors which is mostly used by military contractors and also in engineering. International Orange is designated as Federal Standard 595 color #FS 12197. In accordance with air safety regulations, some tall towers, e.g. Tokyo Tower and the Yerevan TV Tower, are painted in white and international orange.

Berkeley Blue is one of the official colors of the University of California, Berkeley, along with California Gold.Until 2007, the university had used Yale Blue in its place, given Berkeley's historical ties to Yale University, particularly in its founding. Berkeley's school colors are the originators for those of all the campuses in the University of California system, of which Berkeley is the oldest as its flagship.

The deep tone of "champagne" is the color called champagne in the Dictionary of Color Names (1955) in color sample #73.

The color madder is named for a dye produced from plants of the genus Rubia.

Midnight blue became an official crayola color in 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1903, it was called Prussian blue.

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

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-2120 TPX—Wild Orchid.

University of Pennsylvania Blue is one of the official colors of the Penn Quakers, the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania.

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

The web color "brown" is a medium dark red traditionally known as red-brown. Its hue code is 0, indicating it's a shade of red, not orange. The first recorded use of "red-brown" as a color name in English was in 1682.

UP Maroon is the shade used by the University of the Philippines as its primary color.

French pink is the tone of pink referred to as "rose" in French, according to the widely popular Pourpre.com color list in France.

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.

India green, the color of the lower band of the National Flag of India, represents fertility and prosperity.

China pink is a dark purplish pink, with the color name first coming into use in 1948. It is sourced from the Plochere Color System, a color system widely used by interior designers since its formulation in 1948.

For printed material, purple (Pantone #268+) is the official school color of Kansas State University. Traditionally, the school has referred to this darker and bluer shade as Royal Purple. For the web, #512888 is the official color, even though that hex triplet is not a direct conversion from Pantone 268+.

Northwestern Purple is the official color of Northwestern University. Additionally, there are shades and tints that are variations of the base color. Northwestern Purple is a custom ink color and can no longer be referenced by a Pantone number.

Dartmouth green is the official color of Dartmouth College, adopted in 1866. It was chosen for being the only decent primary color that had not been taken already. It is prominently used as the name of the Dartmouth College athletic team, the Dartmouth Big Green. The Dartmouth athletic teams adopted this new name after the college officially discontinued the use of its unofficial mascot, the Dartmouth Indian, in 1974.

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

Avocado is a dark yellow-green color that is a representation of the color of the outer surface of an avocado. Avocado, along with other earthy tones like harvest gold and burnt orange, was a common color for consumer goods like automobiles, shag carpets, and household appliances during the 1970s.

Yale Blue is the dark azure color used in association with Yale University.

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.

Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue. It is said to have been created by clothiers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of whom won a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III.

The web color dark spring green is a deep and rich shade of green.

Plum is a color in the Crayola crayon lineup, introduced in 1958 and still in use today. It is characterized as a deep reddish-purple shade that resembles the color of plum fruit.

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.

This color was originally called harvest in the 1920s. The first recorded use of harvest as a color name in English was in 1923. Harvest gold was a common color for metal surfaces (including automobiles and household appliances), as was the color avocado, during the whole decade of the 1970s. They were both also popular colors for shag carpets. Both colors (as well as shag carpets) went out of style by the early 1980s.

The color wine or bordeaux, vinous, vinaceous, is a dark shade of red.It is a representation of the typical color of red wine. The first recorded use of wine as a color name in English was in 1705. The term "bordeaux" is also sometimes used to describe this color.

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

Ultra red is a color formulated by Crayola in 1972. In 1990, the name of the color was changed to wild watermelon. With a hue code of 350, this color is within the range of carmine colors. This color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism for displaying fluorescence on a computer screen.

Rose Pompadour is a desaturated, purplish pink color designed by Sèvres for Madame de Pompadour in 18th century France.

Deep jungle green is the tone of jungle green represented as jungle green in color sample #165 of the ISCC-NBS color list.

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

Deep Indian red is the colour originally called Indian red from its formulation in 1903 until 1999, but now called chestnut, in Crayola crayons.This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup. At the request of educators worried that children mistakenly believed the name represented the skin color of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon color Indian Red to Chestnut in 1999.

Burnt sienna contains a large proportion of anhydrous iron oxide.It is made by heating raw sienna, which dehydrates the iron oxide, changing itpartially to haematite, giving it rich reddish-brown colour. The pigment is also known as red earth, red ochre, and terra rossa. On the Colour Index International, the pigment is known as PR-102. This version is from the Italian Ferrario 1919 colour list. The first recorded use of burnt sienna as a colour name in English was in 1853. This variation of burnt sienna is from the Maerz and Paul "A Dictionary of Color" from 1930. It is considerably lighter than most other versions of burnt sienna. It was a mix of burnt orange and raw sienna.

Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived. The hue of the spice saffron is primarily due to the carotenoid chemical crocin. The color Saffron (Hindi: भगवा, romanized: Bhagawā) is considered as a sacred color in Hinduism. According to Hindu mythology, Saffron (or Kesariya) is the color of Sunset (Sandhya) and Fire (Agni) which symbolises sacrifice, light, and quest of salvation.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-0751 TPX—Lemon Curry.

Cal Poly Pomona gold was one of the two official colors of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). The official university colors were green (PMS 349) and gold (PMS 131). Cal Poly Pomona's Office of Public Affairs created the colors for web development and has technical guidelines, copyright and privacy protection; as well as logos and images that developers are asked to follow in the University's Guidelines for using official Cal Poly Pomona logos.