Color names

The orangish tone known as tan has been used in Crayola crayons since 1958 and in Crayola markers since 1990.

Tangelo is a shade of orange that is the color of the outer skin of the tangelo fruit.

The name rose bonbon translates loosely from French into English as candy rose or candy pink, or more specifically as bonbon rose or bonbon pink – presumably referring to bonbons that are coated with icing that is colored rose bonbon. Rose bonbon is a tone of rose that is popular in France.

Orange-yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Mint cream is a soft, pale pastel shade of spring green. It resembles the color of the creamy, mint-flavored filling found inside a chocolate-coated after-dinner mint.

Wheat is a color that resembles the light yellow of the wheat grain. The first recorded use of wheat as a color name in English was in 1711. Wheat is one of the X11 web colors.

Cyclamen is a color that is a representation of the color of cyclamens. It is named after the flower. The year of the first recorded use of cyclamen as a color name in English is currently unknown.

In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.

The color name vanilla ice for this pinkish tone of vanilla has been in use at least since 2001, when it was one of the colors on the Resene color list.

The color honeydew is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a honeydew melon.

Violet-red (PerBang) is the bright color of red-violet.

The color defined as yellow in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5Y) is shown at apex of color wheel.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.In order for all the colors to be spaced uniformly, it was found necessary to use a color wheel with five primary colors—red, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The Munsell colors displayed are only approximate as they have been adjusted to fit into the sRGB gamut.

Titanium yellow, also nickel antimony titanium yellow, nickel antimony titanium yellow rutile, CI Pigment Yellow 53, or C.I. 77788, is a yellow pigment with the chemical composition of NiO·Sb2O3·20TiO2. It is a complex inorganic compound.

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.

Pale Dogwood is a beige-tinted shade of pink. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Cotton eXtended (TCX)" color list, color #13-1404 TCX—Pale Dogwood.

Cadmium orange is a pigment used in painting, made from cadmium sulfide. It has been used for centuries by artists due to its bright and durable properties. The color shown here with hex code #ED872D resembles this cadmium orange pigment.

Rose Pompadour is a desaturated, purplish pink color designed by Sèvres for Madame de Pompadour in 18th century France.

Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name. It is currently unknown when marigold was first used as a colour name, although the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield used it to describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural (1914).

Dark salmon is a darker shade of the color salmon. Like the related web colors light salmon and salmon, it is commonly used in HTML and CSS for web design.

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.

Queen pink is a pale shade of pink that first came into use in 1948. This color is sourced from the Plochere Color System, which was formulated in 1948 and is widely used by interior designers.

Chilean pink color is a shade of Lapageria rosea, commonly known as Chilean bellflower, resembling light pale red-orange, pale vermilion nuance.

The color name "kobi" for this light tone of red-violet has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona Color List.

The color peridot is a shade of lime with lemon undertones, which represents the color of the peridot gemstone. Peridot is the birthstone for those born in August.

Lust is a rich shade of red. This color is not mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul but is found on the 1955 ISCC-NBS color list.

Spanish red, also known as torch red, is the color that is called rojo (the Spanish word for "red") 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.

Lemon-lime is a fluorescent chartreuse color that is named after the carbonated soft drinks such as Sprite, 7 Up, and Sierra Mist. The red value to this neon color is almost to yellow.

The web color light cyan is a very pale green shade of cyan.

The first recorded use of "blush" as a color name in English was in 1590. "Blush" has been a Crayola color since 1998. It was originally called "cranberry", until 2005.

The color poppy red is named after the poppy flower. Poppy red is a shade of pink-red. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian officer and surgeon in World War I, wrote possibly history's most famous wartime poems, called "In Flanders Fields", written in 1915. It helped the poppy (Papaver rhoeas) become a symbol of remembrance for soldiers who have died during the conflict and later conflicts.

Pale red-violet, identical to the web color "pale violet red," is a pale tone of red-violet.

Persian orangeis a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran. The first recorded use of Persian orange as a color name in English was in 1892. Orange pudding (milk added to pureed oranges that is mixed in a blender with flour and slowly boiled on a stovetop) is colored Persian orange, assuming no food coloring is added. Allis-Chalmers tractors have been colored Persian orange since 1928 so that, even when caked with dirt, they could still be distinguished from landscape features.

This color is the medium tone of vermilion called vermilion on the Plochere color list, which was formulated in 1948 and is used widely by interior designers.

Steel blue is a shade of blue color that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has been subjected to bluing for protection from rust. It is one of the less vibrant shades of blue, and is usually identified as a blue-grey color. The first recorded use of steel blue as a color name in English was in 1817. In 1987, Steel blue was included as one of the X11 colors, later also known as the X11 web colors after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991.

The color Arctic lime is close to electric lime, and was named in 2009. This is one of the colors in Crayola's eXtreme colors ultra-bright colored pencils.

Tea green is a light shade of green. It is a representation of the color of brewed green tea, i.e., the color of the hot green tea after the green tea leaves have been brewed in boiling water. The first recorded use of tea green as a color name in English was in 1858.

Magenta (Pantone) refers to the color designated as magenta in the Pantone color system. It is sourced from the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list as color #17-2036 TPX—Magenta.

The color sky magenta is a representation of the color of the sky near the sun during the brief period during twilight when the pink of sunset transitions into the blue of early evening. This color was one of the colors in the set of Venus Paradise colored pencils, a popular brand of colored pencils in the 1950s. This color is also called medium lavender pink.

Before the invention of printer’s magenta in the 1890s for CMYK printing and electric magenta in the 1980s for computer displays, the original magenta color was created from coal tar dyes and introduced in 1859. This original magenta is sometimes referred to as "rich magenta" to distinguish it from printer’s magenta and electric magenta. Magenta was one of the first aniline dyes, discovered shortly after the Battle of Magenta in 1859, which took place near the town of Magenta in northern Italy. Initially called fuchsine or roseine, the dye's name was changed to "magenta" in 1860 for marketing purposes, after the battle. As a result, the color is indirectly named after the town of Magenta.

Light French beige is the color called beige on the pourpre.com website, a color list widely popular in France.

"Smitten" is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color was formulated in 2011.

Vegas gold is associated with the glamorous casinos and hotels of the Las Vegas Strip, United States. Vegas gold is one of the official athletic colors for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Boston College Eagles, Colorado Buffaloes, South Florida Bulls, St. Vincent–St. Mary High School, Vanderbilt Commodores, the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen, and Western Carolina University Catamounts. It is one of the official colors of the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights, and was the type of gold the Pittsburgh Penguins used on their uniforms until they reverted to "Pittsburgh gold", the shade traditionally associated with the city.

Alloy orange 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.

French raspberry color is the deep rich tone of raspberry called framboise (French name of the raspberry) in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

Cardinal and blue are the official school colors of California State University, Fresno.

Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. Alternate names for this color included yellow-green, lemon-lime, lime green, or bitter lime. Lime (color hex code #C0FF00) is a pure spectral color at approximately 564 nanometers on the visible spectrum when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram.

The first recorded use of Tuscany as a color name in English was in 1922. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-1219 TPX—Tuscany.

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.

  Lime is a color that is sometimes referred to as a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. However, in its original form, it referred to the color of the samara fruits of the lime or linden tree (species in the genus Tilia). The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890.  

The color silver sand is a soft, muted shade that resembles the light grayish tones of fine sand mixed with a hint of metallic sheen. The color name silver sand for this silver-tone has been used since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.