Color names

The web color Medium Turquoise is a brilliant bluish-green variation of Turquoise color.

Magenta is a color that is variously defined as pinkish-purplish-red, reddish-purplish-pink or mauvish-crimson. Magenta took its name from an aniline dye made and patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin, who originally called it fuchsine. It was renamed to celebrate the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on 4 June 1859 near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy. A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists, Edward Chambers Nicholson and George Maule. The web color magenta is also called fuchsia. The web color magenta is one of the three secondary colors in the RGB color model.

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.

The less saturated color June Bud can be described as Brilliant Yellow Green.

The color Barbie pink can be described as a deep shade of pink. Pantone 219C is the color used by Mattel's Barbie in logos, packaging, and promotional materials.

Light sky blue is a soft, pale shade of blue, reminiscent of a clear sky.

Mantis is a color that is a representation of the color of a praying mantis. The first use of mantis as a color name in English was when it was included as one of the colors on the Xona.com color list, promulgated in 2001.

Sage is a grey-green resembling that of dried sage leaves. As a quaternary color, it is an equal mix of the tertiary colors citron and slate. The hex RGB color value of the Sage swatch at right is BCB88A. For decades, some military flight jackets were made in sage green color.

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.

Carolina blue (occasionally referred to as Tar Heel blue) is the shade of blue used as one of the official school colors of the University of North Carolina. The name is derived from the popular usage of "Carolina" to refer to the university. For clarity in branding and marketing, UNC Creative has defined the color as Pantone 542 and declared the CMYK (60, 19, 1, 4). This CMYK results in a Hex code of #62C6F2. However, the university has chosen the hex value of #4B9CD3 as their web safe Carolina Blue due to contrast issues and Section 508 web requirements. None of the colors match the selected Pantone 542 which would be a hex value of #6699C2. The North Carolina Tar Heels athletics department has their own formulation for Carolina blue. Carolina athletics blue has the same CMYK color representation as the university's version of Carolina blue, but the RGB representation for Carolina athletics blue is (123, 175, 212). This results in a Hex code of #7BAFD4, the official matching hex code for Pantone 542 C.

Cobalt glass—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured glass prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or cobalt carbonate, in a glass melt. Cobalt is a very intense colouring agent and very little is required to show a noticeable amount of colour. Moderately ground cobalt glass (potassium cobalt silicate)—called "smalt"—has been historically important as a pigment in glassmaking, painting, pottery, for surface decoration of other types of glass and ceramics, and other media. The long history of its manufacture and use has been described comprehensively. Cobalt aluminate, also known as "cobalt blue", can be used in a similar way.

Persimmon is a color that resembles persimmons. The first recorded use of persimmon as a color name in English was in 1922.

Displayed in the color box is the color alabaster. It represents the whitish color of the mineral alabaster. Alabaster has been used as a color in English since at least 1594 (in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece), but the origin of the RGB coordinates is not known.

The color brilliant rose is a Crayola color formulated in 1949, but the name was changed in 1958 to magenta. The original name is more accurate since this color, having a hue code of 329, is much closer to rose than (web color) magenta.

The official colors of the University of Southern California are Pantone 201C and Pantone 123C. These colors, designated as USC Cardinal and USC Gold, were adopted in 1895 by Rev. George W. White, USC's third president, and are equal in importance in identifying the USC Trojans.

The color bright lilac, labeled as lilac by Crayola, was introduced in 1994 as part of the Magic Scent specialty box of colors.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #C, EC, M, PC, U, or CP—Yellow.

The color French lime is the shade of lime called "lime" in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

Forest green refers to a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest. This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for website color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space). The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810. Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.

True Blue is a tone of blue deeper than powder blue and lighter than royal blue that was the color for all of the athletic teams of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2003 to 2017. It was developed by the UCLA Athletic Department and Adidas and first introduced on home football jerseys and away basketball jerseys in 2002. True Blue is Pantone Matching System color 2386 C. The color True Blue is a deep tone of azure.

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.

Ruby red is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, which is widely used in Europe. The RAL color list originated in 1927 and reached its current form in 1961.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-1612 TPX—Deep Taupe.

Aureolin (sometimes called cobalt yellow) is a pigment sparingly used in oil and watercolor painting. Its color index name is PY40 (40th entry on list of yellow pigments). It was first made in 1831 by Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer in Breslau characterizing it as "Doppelsalze" or double-salts and its chemical composition is potassium cobaltinitrite. He characterized it again and wrote more extensively about it in 1842, naming it "Salpetrichtsaures Kobaltoxydkali". In 1851-1852, Edouard Saint-Evre synthesized cobalt yellow independently. He is credited with the introduction of cobalt yellow as an artists pigment. The investigation by Gates gives the exact modern procedures for the preparation of aureolin and also the methods for its identification in paintings.

Yellow-green is a dull medium shade of chartreuse. Before the X11 colors were formulated in 1987, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (chartreuse green). Now, the term "yellow-green" is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.

#FF8C00 is a bright shade of orange known as Dark Orange. The color became widely recognized as HTML/CSS standards were established in the late 1990s.

This color is named purpureus. Another name for this color is purpura. The first recorded use its alternative name purpura as a color name in English was in 1382.

Dark blue-gray is a deep, muted shade of gray that has hints of blue.

The color steel pink is a strongly purple-toned shade of pink. The color steel pink was introduced by Crayola in January 2011, when the Ultra Hot and Super Cool set of Crayola colored pencils was fully introduced. "Steel pink" is a deep tone of magenta.

Candlelight is a brilliant gold color.

Straw is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus, with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature. The first recorded use of straw as a colour name in English was in 1589. The name of the colour straw is used as an adjective in the names of birds and other animals with such colouring to describe their appearance.

Fluorescent red is a light brilliant red color.

The Munsell color system (Munsell 5G) includes a color defined as green. The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity), spaced uniformly in three dimensions in the elongated oval at an angle shaped Munsell color solid according to the logarithmic scale which governs human perception. The Munsell colors displayed are only approximate as they have been adjusted to fit into the sRGB gamut.

Jungle green is a rich tone of medium spring green. The specific tone called "jungle green" by Crayola was formulated in 1990. The first recorded use of jungle green as a color name in English dates back to 1926.

Verdigris is the common name for blue-green, poisonous, copper-based pigments that form a patina on copper, bronze, and brass.

Light yellow is a web color that can be described as pale yellow-green. It is mentioned on Wikipedia as one of the yellow tints.

The deep tone of mauve is referred to as mauve by Pourpre.com, a color list that is widely popular in France.

This is a variation on the standard RGB or Hex combination that produces a truer Scarlet color on some monitors. It is slightly more orange than the standard Scarlet RGB value of 255, 36, 0, but does give a truer color on displays where the red dominates over the orange and would otherwise make the color appear more as a normal red rather than a genuine Scarlet.

The color is defined as red in Pantone. The source of this color is the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list, color No. 032M—Red.

There is no evidence that 'floral white' name was in use before the X11 color names were formulated in 1987.

Cornsilk is a color that is a representation of the color of cornsilk. The first recorded use of cornsilk as a color name in English was in 1927. In 1987, cornsilk was included as one of the X11 colors.

The color pink lace is a very pale purplish pink. The color name pink lace for this pale tone of rose pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List. This color is suggestive of the color of some women's lingerie.

Mustard is a dull/dark yellow color that resembles culinary mustard. It is similar to the color Flax. The first recorded use of mustard as a color name in English was in 1886.

The deep tone of peach known as peach in Crayola crayons was previously called flesh before 1962. The name change to peach was made, ostensibly in recognition of the Civil Rights Movement.

Cotton candy is a light purplish pink color that was formulated by Crayola in 1998.

This is the color hot pink light on the Xona.com Color List.

Bright yellow (Crayola) is the main color on the Indian 200-rupee note.

The color light red, though very similar to pink, is a shade of red that is roughly 50% lighter than red.

The name of the web color is written as "hotpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display. This shade of pink, along with bubblegum pink, was a very popular aesthetic during the 2000s.

The color calledorange in Pantone is taken from the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #021 TPX—Orange.