4 Color names for "Shades Of Cerise"

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.

Cerise is a deep to vivid reddish pink. The color or name comes from the French word cerise, meaning "cherry".

In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.

The color name irresistible first came into use in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. The normalized color coordinates for irresistible are identical to raspberry rose, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1950 in the Descriptive Color Names Dictionary.