Color names

Persian pink is a bright, purplish pink. The first recorded use of Persian pink as a color name in English dates back to 1923.

The first recorded use of champagne as a color name in English was in 1915.

Congo pink is a moderate, yellow-toned shade of pink. The first recorded use of Congo pink as a color name in English was in 1912. "Congo pink" is an orangeish tone of pink. The normalized color coordinates for Congo pink are identical to Coral pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1892.

Coral pink is a pinkish color. The complementary color of coral pink is teal. The first recorded use of coral pink as a color name in English was in 1892. Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by Pantone, as the RGB, hex and HTML color table showed the same color as being reddish, standing against popular belief of pinkish. Still today, some people call Coral Red as Coral Pink due to this old attribution. The normalized color coordinates for coral pink are identical to Congo pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1912.

The color jasmine is a pale tint of yellow. It is a representation of the average color of the more yellowish lower part of the pale yellowish white colored jasmine flower.The first recorded use of jasmine as a color name in English was in 1925.

The color sunset is a pale tint of orange.It is a representation of the average color of clouds when the sunlight from a sunset is reflected from them. The first recorded use of sunset as a color name in English was in 1916.

The color royal yellow is a representation of the color of the robes worn by the Emperor of China. The first recorded use of royal yellow as a color name in English was in 1548. Other names for this color are Chinese yellow and imperial yellow.

Naples yellow, also called antimony yellow, is an inorganic pigment used in paintings during the period 1700–1850. Colors range from a muted, or earthy, reddish yellow pigment to a bright light yellow.It is the chemical compound lead antimonate. Also known as jaune d'antimoine, it is one of the oldest synthetic pigments. The Ancient Egyptians were known to create it. The first recorded use of Naples yellow as a color name in English was in 1738. After 1800, Naples Yellow was superseded by chrome yellow (lead chromate), cadmium sulfide, and cobalt yellow.

Pale purple is the pale tint of purple.

The color cantaloupe melon is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a cantaloupe, the most commonly consumed melon. The first recorded use of melon as a color name in English was in 1892. In 1958, melon was formulated as one of the Crayola colors.

The color purple pizzazz was formulated by Crayola in 1990.

The color radical red was formulated by Crayola in 1990. With a hue code of 348, this color is within the range of carmine colors. This color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism for displaying fluorescence on a computer screen.

Ultra pink is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1972. In 1990, the name was changed in error to shocking pink; however, properly speaking, the name shocking pink should be reserved for only the original shocking pink formulated by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1937.

Orange is the color of an orange fruit, which is where the name of the color comes from. Before the orange fruit was introduced to England in the 1500s, this color was called yellow-red. The first recorded use of orange as a color name in English was in 1512, in the court of King Henry VIII.

Salmon pink (or salmon in Crayola crayons) was introduced by Crayola in 1949.

The first recorded use of sunglow as a color name in English was in 1924. The Crayola crayon color was formulated in 1990.

Burlywood is a light to medium shade of brown that resembles the color of raw wood. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

The color defined as yellow in the NCS (Natural Color System) is NCS 0580-Y. The “Natural Color System” is widely used in Scandinavia.

Dark Gray is a deep, neutral gray, darker than average gray but still versatile and modern. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold". The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold. The word gold as a color name was first used in 1400 and in 1423 to refer to blond hair. Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold tone, or gold ground when describing a solid gold background.

Lawn Green is a bright, vivid shade of green that resembles freshly cut grass, often associated with vibrant nature. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Medium Orchid is a vibrant purple shade with pink undertones, reminiscent of blooming orchids. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Lavender blush is the web color which can be described as a pale pinkish tone of lavender.

Medium Slate Blue is a medium shade of blue with subtle violet undertones, combining the calmness of blue and the warmth of purple. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Cosmic latte is the average color of the universe, found by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the average color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2003 paper in which they reported that their survey of the light from over 200,000 galaxies averaged to a slightly beigeish white. The hex triplet value for cosmic latte is #FFF8E7.

Cerulean is the color that was chosen as the "2000 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

The color unmellow yellow was formulated by Crayola in 1990. The color "unmellow yellow" is a similar fluorescent yellow to laser lemon but the color is brighter. In crayons, the color may appear slightly orange, though the computer display can appear more pale depending on one's monitor. The color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism to display fluorescence on a flat computer screen.

Laser lemon is a fluorescent color, shown here in its non-fluorescent form. The color laser lemon was named by Crayola in 1990.Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been incorrectly been named chartreuse. In actuality, a chartreuse color is one in which the green hex code has a slightly higher value than the red hex code in the RGB values of the color.

Blue Turquoise is the color that was chosen as the "2005 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Radiant Orchid is the color that was chosen as the "2014 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Ultra Violet is the color that was chosen as the "2018 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Living Coral is the color that was chosen as the "2019 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Illuminating is the color that was chosen as the "2021 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Very Peri is the color that was chosen as the "2022 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Peach Fuzz is the color that was chosen as the "2024 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Emerald is the color from Crayola 1994 Gem Tones series, a pack of 16 crayons modeled after the colors of gemstones.

It is a cyan green shade of the chromatic circle. It is spectral with a wavelength of 516nm.

The first recorded use of golden brown as a color name in English was in the year 1891. Golden brown is commonly referenced in recipes as the desired color of properly baked and fried foods.

Original Blurple is a brilliant purplish blue hue. It is the older version of Blurple color. It was used in the old Discord logo. Before 13 May 2021, it was simply called Blurple.

California Gold is one of the official colors of the University of California, Berkeley, as identified in their graphic style guide for use in on-screen representations of the gold color in the university's seal. For print media, the guide recommends to, "se Pantone 7750 metallic or Pantone 123 yellow and 282 blue". The color is one of two most used by Berkeley, the other being Berkeley Blue; these, together, are the original colors of the University of California system, of which variations of blue and gold can be found in each campus' school colors.

Celadon is a pale greyish shade of green, or rather a range of such shades. Celadon originates as a term for a class of Chinese ceramics, copied by Korea and Japan. However, the name, which is European, may originate from the character Celadon in L'Astrée, a French pastoral novel of 1627, who wore a light green color. Celadon glazes were very common, with the green color being reliably produced from about the tenth century onwards; this was appreciated in Asia for resembling jade, the most prestigious material of all. The glaze color comes from iron oxide's transformation from ferric to ferrous iron during the firing process, but is affected by a wide range of other factors and chemicals, making the precise color very difficult to control. As well as green, a wide range of browns, yellows, greys and sometimes blues all count as "celadon".

Paolo Veronese green is the color that is called Verde Verones in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm. Paolo Veronese green was a color formulated and used by the noted 16th-century Venetian artist Paolo Veronese. Paolo Veronese green began to be used as a color name in English sometime in the 1800s (exact year uncertain). Another name for this color is transparent oxide of chromium.

Gamboge is a partially transparent deep saffron to mustard yellow pigment. It is the traditional colour used to dye Buddhist monks' robes, and Theravada Buddhist monks in particular. Physicist Jean Perrin used this pigment to prove Brownian motion in 1908.

Indigo is a shade of blue, more specifically, purplish blue or dark blue. Isaac Newton named and defined indigo as a spectrum color when he divided up the spectrum into the seven colors of the rainbow. The name of the color indigo originally came from the indigo plant culitvated in India. Indigo is a dye made from the indigo plant, used to dye cloth. Indigo dye also is used to dye denim cloth, which is used to make what are called blue jeans. The Ancient Greek language word for the dye is indikon. The Romans used the term indicum, which passed into Italian dialect and eventually into English as the word indigo.

Light green is a light tint of green.

Olive drab is variously described as a "dull olive-green colour" (Oxford English Dictionary); "a shade of greenish-brown" (Webster's New World Dictionary); "a dark gray-green" (MacMillan English dictionary); "a grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray" (American Heritage Dictionary); or "A dull but fairly strong gray-green color" (Collins English Dictionary). It is widely used as a camouflage color for uniforms and equipment in the armed forces. The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892. Drab is an older color name, from the middle of the 16th century. It refers to a dull light brown color, the color of cloth made from undyed homespun wool. It took its name from the old French word for cloth, drap.

Since version 3.2 of HTML "silver" is a name for one of the 16 basic-VGA-colors.

The color amber is a pure chroma color, located on the color wheel midway between the colors of yellow and orange.The color name is derived from the material also known as amber, which is commonly found in a range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color amber can refer to a range of yellow-orange colors. In English, the first recorded use of the term as a color name, rather than a reference to the specific substance, was in 1500.

The color "xanthic" is derived from "xantho" (meaning yellow or golden), from the Ancient Greek ξανθός and "ic" (meaning of or pertaining to), from the Ancient Greek adjectival suffix -ικός. The color "xanthic" is the color of Xanthine and Xanthate, both of which are xanthic acids.

Safety yellow is one of the standard high-visibility safety colors defined by ANSI standard Z535, which specifies standards for safety and accident prevention information. It is often used on hazard symbols, warning signs, guard rails, dangerous equipment, and some high-visibility clothing and personal protective equipment. The definition is mirrored in British Standard BS 381C and Australian Standard AS2700 (where it is known as golden yellow). In 1937, it was determined that safety yellow was the best color to be noticed by the human brain; as a result, the paint color of all United States school buses was changed from orange to safety yellow (see also school bus yellow).