Color names

Lava is a color that is a shade of red. It is named after the color of volcanic lava. This is the color (#CF1020) of fresh lava pouring out of a volcano. The first recorded use of lava as a color name in English was in 1891.

Deep lemon is the deep tone of lemon that is called "lemon" by Pantone. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #13-0752 TPX—Lemon.

"Bubblegum pink" is a deep tone of magenta. This shade of pink, along with hot pink, were a very popular aesthetic during the 2000s.

Jonquil is a hue of yellow. It is the color of the interior of the central cylindrical tubular projection of the jonquil flower. The color takes its name from a species of plant, Narcissus jonquilla, which has clusters of small fragrant yellow flowers, and is native to the Mediterranean. The first known recorded use of jonquil as a color name in English was in 1789.

The pure essence of purple was approximated in pigment in the late 1960s by mixing fluorescent magenta and fluorescent blue pigments together to make fluorescent purple to use in psychedelic black light paintings. This tone of purple was very popular among hippies and was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix. Thus it is called psychedelic purple. Psychedelic purple is the color halfway between electric purple and magenta. In the 1980s, there was a Jimi Hendrix Museum in a Victorian house on the east side of Central Avenue one half block south of Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco which was painted this color. Another name for this color is phlox, as it is the color of the phlox flower. The first recorded use of phlox as a color name in English was in 1918.

Magnolia is a colour named after the flowering plant of the genus Magnolia. As magnolias have flowers of more than one colour, mainly cream or pale purple, magnolia may refer to different colours in different countries. An early use of magnolia as a colour name in English was in 1880, describing it as a "tint of cream-color". In the UK, magnolia is a creamy colour defined by British Standard BS 08B15, with the sRGB value (244, 233, 216) and CMYK (Coated) value (0, 5, 25, 0). Although the interiors of houses in the UK have commonly been painted in pale "stone colours" since the 18th century, the use of the name "magnolia" only dates from the 1950s.

Platinum is a color that is the metallic tint of pale grayish-white resembling the metal platinum. The first recorded use of platinum as a color name in English was in 1918.

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

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.

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower. The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.

The color Iceberg is a soft, pale shade of blue that evokes the cold, crisp, and serene qualities of icebergs floating in the ocean. The first recorded use of iceberg as a color name in English was in 1921. The color displayed in the color box matches the color called iceberg in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul "A Dictionary of Color".

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.

Burnt sienna contains a large proportion of anhydrous iron oxide.It is made by heating raw sienna, which dehydrates the iron oxide, changing itpartially to haematite, giving it rich reddish-brown colour. The pigment is also known as red earth, red ochre, and terra rossa. On the Colour Index International, the pigment is known as PR-102. This version is from the Italian Ferrario 1919 colour list. The first recorded use of burnt sienna as a colour name in English was in 1853. This variation of burnt sienna is from the Maerz and Paul "A Dictionary of Color" from 1930. It is considerably lighter than most other versions of burnt sienna. It was a mix of burnt orange and raw sienna.

Van Dyke (Vandyke) brown, also known as Cassel earth or Cologne earth, is a deep, rich, and warm brown colour often used in painting and printmaking. Early publications on the pigment refer to it as Cassel (or Kassel) earth or Cologne earth in reference to its city of origin; however, today it is typically called Van Dyke brown after the painter Anthony van Dyck. The colour was originally made from peat or soil, and has been applied as both watercolour and oil paints. Today, the pigment is made by combining asphaltum-like black with iron oxide. This replicates the colour of the original iron oxide-rich earth found in Cassel and Cologne, Germany.

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

Originally in the 19th century and up to at least 1930, the color ecru meant exactly the same color as beige (i.e. the pale cream color), and the word is often used to refer to such fabrics as silk and linen in their unbleached state. Ecru comes from the French word écrucode, which means literally "raw" or "unbleached". Since at least the 1950s, however, the color ecru has been regarded as a different color from beige, presumably in order to allow interior designers a wider palette of colors to choose from.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Isabelline (also known as isabella) is a pale grey-yellow, pale fawn, pale cream-brown or parchment colour. It is primarily found in animal coat colouring, particularly plumage colour in birds and, in Europe, in horses. It also has historically been applied to fashion. The first known record of the word was in 1600 as "isabella colour"; this use later became interchangeable in literature with "isabelline" after the latter was introduced into print in 1859. The origin of the word is unclear; the uncertainty prompted by this has generated several attempts to provide an etymology and led to one prominent legend.

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

Luis Lemon is a fluorescent color, shown here in its non-fluorescent form. Luis Lemon is one of Models Own's ice neon nail polish color sets. It is a variant of Laser Lemon.

The color name picton blue dates back to at least 2001, and came into wider use when the Resene Paints colors were used as one of the sources for the Xona Games Color List.

Rifle green, represented as Pantone 19-0419 TPX, is named for the distinctive color of rifle regiments' uniforms in European armies. First recorded in 1858, this dark green was adopted by 18th-century riflemen for camouflage, contrasting with the colorful uniforms of other soldiers. The original vegetable-based dyes often faded, prompting a gradual darkening until it approached black. After 1890, chemical dyes created the stable shade known today. In the U.S. military, only Special Forces soldiers can wear the rifle green beret. The color also served as the official uniform for the Canadian Forces and the Royal Ulster Constabulary until 2001.

The color café au lait is also known as coffee and milk or latte. This is a representation of the color of coffee mixed with milk, which when prepared commercially by a barista in a coffee shop is known as a latte. The first recorded use of cafe au lait as a color name in English was in 1839. The normalized color coordinates for café au lait are identical to Tuscan tan and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1926 and 1927, respectively.

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 prior definition of android green was a yellow-green color #A4C639 (PMS 376C in print). During the initial creation of the android logo, first released in November 5, 2007, #A4C639 was selected by the original designer of the android logo, Irina Blok, "...because it reminded (us of a) nostalgic code color, and it would stand out against dark background." Code color probably refers to the color of text in Monochrome monitors, derived from the green "P1" phosphor.

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 name keppel has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

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 web color "Blue-Violet" is shown, which is an intermediate shade between electric indigo and pigment indigo. It is also known as "Deep Indigo."

Polynesian blue is a dark blue color, almost navy.

The color Giants orange symbolizes, along with Black and Cream, the San Francisco Giants baseball team.

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.

Mountain meadow is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1998.

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.

Scarletis a bright red color, sometimes with a slightly orange tinge. In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-quarter of the way between red and orange, slightly less orange than vermilion. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, scarlet and other bright shades of red are the colors most associated with courage, force, passion, heat, and joy. In the Roman Catholic Church,scarlet is the color worn by a cardinal, and is associated with the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs, and with sacrifice. Scarlet is also associated with immorality and sin, particularly prostitution or adultery, largely because of a passage referring to "The Great Harlot", "dressed in purple and scarlet",in the Bible (Revelation 17:1–6).

In color printing, yellow is one of the three subtractive primary colors of ink along with magenta and cyan. Together with black, they can be overlaid in the right combination to print any full color image. A particular yellow is used, called Process yellow (also known as "pigment yellow", "printer's yellow", and "canary yellow"). Process yellow is not an RGB color, and there is no fixed conversion from CMYK primaries to RGB. Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure yellow ink.

Little Boy Blue is a deep tone of Baby Blue color. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-4132 TPX—Little Boy Blue.

#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.

Sunset orange is a color that was formulated by Crayola in 1997.

Chocolate cosmos, or red cosmos is the color of Cosmos atrosanguineus flowering plant. The color is described as dark red, deep crimson, deeper burgundy, deep red chocolate, as dark hazelnut and velvety maroon.

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.

The color goldenrod is a representation of the color of some of the deeper gold colored goldenrod flowers. The first known recorded use of goldenrod as a color name in English was in 1915.

French sky blue is the specific tone of sky blue referred to as bleu ciel in the Pourpre.com color list, which is widely popular in France. Sky blue refers to a collection of shades comparable to that of a clear daytime sky. The term (as "sky blew") is attested from 1681.

Fluorescent red is a light brilliant red color.