114 Color names for "Deep Shades"

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.

Pakistan green is a shade of dark green, used in web development and graphic design. It is also the background color of the national flag of Pakistan. It is almost identical to the HTML/X11 dark green in sRGB and HSV values.

Ruby red is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, which is widely used in Europe. The RAL color list originated in 1927 and reached its current form in 1961.

Pale red-violet, identical to the web color "pale violet red," is a pale tone of red-violet.

Cardinal and gold are the official colors of the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans.

In cosmetology, a brighter tone of burgundy called vivid burgundy is used for coloring hair.

The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple. It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple (hue rendering), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors. The latter, often also referred to as "Tyrian red", is more reddish in hue, and is in fact often depicted as closer to crimson than purple. The first recorded use of byzantium as a color name in English was in 1926.

The web color called "chocolate" is actually the color of the exterior of an unripe cocoa bean pod, not the color of processed chocolate. Historically, this color is known as cocoa brown, with its first recorded use as a color name in English dating back to 1925. It may also be referred to as light chocolate or cinnamon.

Dark sapphire is a dark tone of sapphire.

Deep sky blue is an azure-cyan color associated with deep sky blue. This color is on the color wheel (RGB/HSV color wheel) halfway between azure and cyan. The traditional name for this color is Capri. The first use of Capri as a color name in English was in 1920. The color Capri in general is named for the azure-cyan color of the Mediterranean Sea around the island of Capri off Italy, the site of several villas belonging to the Roman Emperor Tiberius, including his imperial residence in his later years, the Villa Jovis. Specifically, the color Capri is named after the color of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri as it appears on a bright sunny day.

Palatinate or palatinate purple is a purple colour associated with Durham University and the City of Durham. The term has been used to refer to a number of different shades of purple.The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a "light purple or lavender colour", which is used for Durham (and Newcastle) academic hoods. For corporate purposes Durham University uses a darker shade. A separate colour, 'palatinate blue', is derived from the Coat of Arms of County Durham. The name 'Palatinate' in both instances alludes to the historic status of Durham as a County Palatine.

The deep tone of cerise, as used in Crayola crayons, has been called cerise since 1993. This color is part of the Crayola crayon color list.

Ruby, a deep tone of red, is listed as color #542 in the British Standards 381 color list. This list is used for colors in identification, coding, and other specific purposes. The British Standard color lists were first developed in 1930 and took their current form in 1955.

Persian plum, found in the Xona.com Color List, is traditionally referred to as prune, representing the average color of prunes. While "prune" is the French word for "plum," in English, it specifically refers to dried plums. This color reflects the hue of cooked dried plums (prunes). The first recorded use of "prune" as a color name in English dates back to 1789.