4 Color names for "Liver"

This is the color of a healthy human liver. It may range from brown to reddish brown, and the color represented in the adjacent box is the gross average of these shades. These healthy tones usually indicate blood flow, which is why livers and other meat turn grayish-brown when cooked.

The first recorded use of liver as a color name in English was in 1686. Liver may also refer to a group of certain types of dark brown color in dogs and horses. Said nomenclature may also refer to the color of the organ.

The web color Liver (dogs) is a dark brown shade, similar to the coat color of some liver-colored dogs. This coat color is the result of a dilution of eumelanin (black pigment), producing various shades of brown. The color associated with #5D3B1A fits within the spectrum of what is often referred to as "Liver," "Chocolate," or "Brown."

Liver Chestnut (horses) web color corresponds to a dark brown color, which can resemble the coat color of chocolate-colored chestnut horse. A dark liver chestnut has the same recessive base genetics as a regular chestnut, but the shade is a dark brown rather than the reddish or rust color more typical of chestnut. A horse that appears to be a dark liver chestnut but has a flaxen-colored mane and tail, sometimes colloquially though incorrectly called a "chocolate palomino", could be genetically chestnut but could also be a black horse manifesting the silver dapple gene.