Color names

Electric lime is a Crayola color created in 1990. This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-2436 TPX—Fuchsia Purple.

Displayed adjacent is the color Boston University Scarlet, the color which, along with white, is symbolic of Boston University. The color is identical to Utah Crimson.

Crayola crayons have a color called silver which is a pale tone of silver color. This silver (Crayola) has been a Crayola color since 1903. Crayola silver is not a neutral grayscale color but a warm gray with a very slight tinge of orange-red.

Lilac is a color that is a pale violet tone representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet. The first recorded use of lilac as an English color name was in 1775.

Cardinal red, also called cardinal, is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by cardinals. The family of birds takes its name from the color.

The source of rose red is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-1852 TPX—Rose red.

Deep fuchsia is the color that is called fuchsia in the List of Crayola crayon colors.

The color known as "powder blue" in Crayola crayons was introduced in 2022 for the Colors of Kindness set.

Mahogany is a reddish-brown color. It is approximately the color of the wood mahogany. However,the wood itself, like most woods, is not uniformly the same color and is not recognized as a color by most. The first recorded use of mahogany as a color name in English was in 1737.

Burnt orange has been used as a color name for this medium dark shade of orange since 1915. This color is one variation that is used as a school color of The University of Texas at Austin, Auburn University, and Virginia Tech. Burnt orange is not a standard color; for example, it is defined differently by Auburn University and the University of Texas at Austin. The National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks use burnt orange as a secondary color, and it is one of three colors of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns. The Chicago Bears also use it as an alternate color.

Bittersweet shimmer is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001. Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

This color, electric purple, is precisely halfway between violet and magenta and thus fits the artistic definition of purple. An old name for this color, used by Robert Ridgway in his 1912 book on color nomenclature, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, is true purple.

Twin Bed is so named since its HEX color code spells out "BED" twice.The color is also recognized for bearing very close semblance to that of many commonly-used bed sheets.

Powder blue is a pale shade of blue. As with most colours, there is no absolute definition of its exact hue. Originally, powder blue, in the 1650s, was powdered smalt (cobalt glass) used in laundering and dyeing applications, and it then came to be used as a colour name from 1894. Powder blue was also used as a colour name in English in 1774, but the exact colour is unclear: it may be a blue-grey or a dark unsaturated blue.

"Popstar" is one of the colors on the Resene Color List. It was formulated in 2006.

Apple red is the color of the peel of an apple.

The color Byzantine is a rich tone of medium purple toned toward magenta. The first recorded use of byzantine as a color name in English was in 1924.

Beau blue is a light tone of baby blue. "Beau" means "beautiful" in French. The source of this color is the color that is called beau blue in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

Dark goldenrod is a rich, deep yellow-brown web color.

Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper. The first recorded use of copper as a color name in English was in 1594.

Rust is an orange-brown color resembling iron oxide. It is a commonly used color in stage lighting and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a standard tungsten light source. The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692.

The color tiger’s eye is named for the tiger’s eye gemstone, so named because its banding resembles the eye of a tiger. This color was formulated by Crayola in 1994 as part of the Gem Tones set.

English lavender is a medium light tone of grayish pinkish lavender. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-3617 TPX—English Lavender.

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

Displayed in the color box is the color rich maroon, i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names, which is much brighter and more toned toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon.

Windsor tan is a color that was first recorded as a color name in English in 1925.

Copper penny is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

The color Magic Mint, a light tint of spring green, is displayed. The color magic mint is a light tint of the color mint. Ceramic tiles in a similar color, often with a contrasting black border, were a popular choice for bathroom, kitchen and upmarket hotel swimming pool décor during the 1930s. This is a Crayola color formulated in 1990 (later retired in 2003).

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.

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

Blue bell is a shade of blue-gray. It is also a Crayola color. It represents the bluebell flower. The first recorded use of bluebell as a color name in English was in 1920.

The first recorded use of "flirt" as a color name in English was in 1928. In 2001, "flirt" was included as one of the colors on the Xona Color List.

Baby blue eyes is a rich tone of baby blue. The source of this color is the color that is called baby blue eyes in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

The web colour sienna is defined by the list of X11 colours used in web browsers and web design.

Vivid violet is a color approximately equivalent to the violet seen at the extreme edge of human visual perception. On the CIE chromaticity diagram, it corresponds to a visual stimulus of approximately 380 nm on the spectrum, and it is also known as extreme violet.

Olivine is the typical color of the mineral olivine. The first recorded use of olivine as a color name in English was in 1912.

Pistachio is a dull yellowish-green color resembling the pistachio nut.

Stone gray is a color represented in the list of RAL classic colors from RAL colour standard. This is the main color on the Indian 500-rupee note.

The X11 web color Midnight Blue is shown in color box. There are two major shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color. This color was originally called midnight. The first recorded use of midnight as a color name in English was in 1915.

Artichoke is a color that is a representation of the color of a raw fresh uncooked artichoke. Another name for this color is artichoke chartreuse or artichoke green. The first recorded use of "artichoke green" as a color name in English was in 1905.

Taupe gray is a muted, warm gray color with brown undertones.

French violet is the tone of violet that is called violet in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

The color name Mardi Gras has been in use since 2001 when the Xona.com Color List was first promulgated.

Cambridge Blue is the colour commonly used by sports teams from the University of Cambridge. There is contextual and historical variation. The colour used since the mid-20th century by Cambridge University Boat Club is greener than that used by Cambridge University R.U.F.C. (in rugby union). This rowing colour was created when Alf Twinn, the boatman from 1934 to 1984, added more yellow to this shade, reportedly to distinguish it from the rugby club's colour.

Marengo is a shade of gray (black with gray tinge) or blue colors. Sometimes the color is described as a color of a wet asphalt. In the cloth manufacturing industry, marengo usually refers to the color of the fabric and means black or dark brown with small inclusions of white. Sometimes the word refers to black fabric with white threads. Marengo color became popular in Russia, and, at the beginning of the 19th century, there appeared another, light gray variation of the color called marengo-claire (marengo light).

Medium sky blue, also known as sky blue in Crayola crayons, was introduced by Crayola in 1958. This color can be found in the 32, 48, 64, 96, and 120 packs of crayons.

Chartreuse green (the web color known as chartreuse since the X11 colors were created in 1987 and then renamed the X11 web colors in 1991) is a web color that was named because it looked like the green color of a French liqueur called green chartreuse, made since 1764. Before 1987, this color was called yellow-green, but that name is now used for the web color "yellow-green"

The tertiary color on the HSV color wheel (also known as the RGB color wheel) precisely halfway between blue and magenta is called color wheel violet. This tone of violet—an approximation of the color violet at about 417 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram—is shown in the color obx. This tone of violet is actually somewhat toward indigo assuming indigo is accepted as a separate spectrum color, usually quoted as having a range of from about 420 to 450 nanometers. Another name for this color is near violet.

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.