21 Color names for "Shades Of Dark Red"

Tuscan red is a shade of red that was used on some railroad cars, particularly passenger cars. The color is most closely associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which used it on passenger cars and on its TrucTrain flatcars. It also was used extensively by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia, in a similar fashion to the PRR. The Norfolk and Western Railway used it as an accent color on its J class steam locomotives. The Canadian Pacific Railway used it historically and painted its luxury revival cars in this color. It is also a Prismacolor colored pencil.

The color Solid Pink, a dark reddish-pink, is shown in color box. The color name solid pink for this extremely dark tone of pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

The color shown is called Puce in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955). With a hue code of 353, it is a slightly purplish red.

Wine dregs, or dregs of wine, is a deep tone of the color wine. It refers to the color of the lees of wine which settle at the bottom of a wine vessel. The first recorded use of wine dregs as a color name in English was in 1924. This color and old gold are the official colors of the Phi Delta Chi and Delta Psi fraternities. The normalized color coordinates for wine dregs are identical to old mauve, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1925.

Cordovan is a rich shade of burgundy and a dark shade of rose. Cordovan takes its name from the city of Córdoba, Spain, where the production of cordovan leather was first practiced by the Visigoths in the seventh century.The term cordovan has come to describe the colour of clothing – leather in particular; in this sense, the use of cordovan overlaps with that of oxblood. The first recorded use of cordovan as a colour name in English was in 1925.

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.

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.

The color catawba is a representation of the color of the outer skin of catawba grapes. The first recorded use of catawba as a color name in English was in 1916.

Twilight lavender is a color created by Crayola in 1990 as part of its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors. Although it's intended to be a metallic shade, there is no way to display metallic colors accurately on a computer.

Oxblood or ox-blood is a dark shade of red. It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues. The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning (but also "ox blood") is used in various contexts in English, but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in Chinese ceramics. The name is often used in fashion, especially for shoes. The term oxblood can be used to describe a range of colors from red to reddish-purple to nearly black with red, brown and blue undertones.

Falu red or falun red (Swedish: falu rödfärg ) is a permeable red paint commonly used on wooden cottages and barns in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.

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.

The first recorded use of old mauve as a color name in English was in 1925. The normalized color coordinates for old mauve are identical to wine dregs, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1924.

The color #8B0000, known as Dark Red, was introduced as part of the X11 color system in 1987.

Eggplant is a dark purple or brownish-purple color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine (the French, German and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of eggplant as a color name in English was in 1915. The pinkish-purple-grayish color shown in the color box as eggplant was introduced by Crayola in 1998. Different varieties of eggplant may range from indigo to white (the term eggplant originated as a description of white colored eggplants because they look like eggs).Chinese eggplants are the same shape as a European eggplant, but are colored a dark violet color.Thai eggplants are small, round, and colored forest green. Purple is a more used term.

The color old rose, also known as ashes of rose, was a popular Victorian color. The first recorded use of old rose as a color name in English was in 1892.

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.

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".

The color redwood is a representation of color of the wood of the redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens). The first recorded use of redwood as a color name in English was in 1917. The source of this color is the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list, color #18-1443—Redwood.

The dark tone of raspberry, called "Raspberry" on the Xona Color List, is shown. Dark raspberry is a color that resembles the color of a black raspberry. Dark raspberry is also the color of regular raspberries that have been boiled down into raspberry jam or sauce with sugar to use for cake filling, filling for French pancakes, ice cream topping, etc.

"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".