Color names

A color name is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. This section includes over 1,000 color names mentioned in Wikipedia articles.

Titian is a tint of red hair, most commonly described as brownish-orange in color. It is often confused with Venetian and auburn.
Titian Red
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Variation of acid green mentioned on Wikipedia. Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.
Acid green (metallic shimmer)
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Medium red-violet is the medium tone of the color red-violet that is called "red-violet" in Crayola crayons. It has been a Crayola color since 1930.
Medium Red-Violet
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Opera mauve is a color whose first recorded use as a color name in English dates back to 1927.
Opera mauve
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Variation of acid green mentioned on Wikipedia. Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.
Acid green (HTMLColorCode.org)
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Light taupe (dark tan) is the light tone of taupe that is the color called taupe in Crayola colored pencils.
Light Taupe
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Dark pink (PerBang) is a bold, vibrant shade of pink.
Dark Pink
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The web color Powder blue is a light bluish green. The first recorded use of powder blue as a color name in English was in 1774.
Powder Blue
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The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.
Blood red
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The color name silver chalice for this tone of silver has been in use since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.
Silver Chalice
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Variation of acid green mentioned on Wikipedia. Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.
Acid green (Marmalade fabrics)
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Variation of acid green mentioned on Wikipedia. Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.
Acid green (matte acrylic spray paint)
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The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.
Blood red
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Laurel green is a medium light hue of chartreuish gray similar to asparagus, but lighter. The first recorded use of laurel green as a name of a color in the English language was in 1705.
Laurel green
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The color box shows the color called Puce from the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color.
Puce (M&P)
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The BISU Visual Identity, or BISU Visual Identity System (VIS) is a set of coherent graphic styles that underlines the visual recognisability of Beijing International Studies University (BISU), providing clarity for the University's graphic identity. The system was developed by the University Relations and was officially launched on 30 December 2003.
BISU Maroon
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The web color "brown" is a medium dark red traditionally known as red-brown. Its hue code is 0, indicating it's a shade of red, not orange. The first recorded use of "red-brown" as a color name in English was in 1682.
Red-Brown
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Jazzberry color, a deep shade of red-violet, was formulated by Crayola in 2003.
Jazzberry Jam
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The color redwood is a representation of color of the wood of the redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens). The first recorded use of redwood as a color name in English was in 1917. The source of this color is the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list, color #18-1443—Redwood.
Redwood
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Cerulean, also spelled caerulean, is a variety of the hue of blue that may range from a light azure blue to a more intense sky blue, and may be mixed as well with the hue of green. The first recorded use of cerulean as a colour name in English was in 1590. The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, "dark blue, blue, or blue-green", which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, "heaven, sky".
Cerulean (RGB)
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The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple. This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors. This color can be called X11 purple. The traditional name for this tone of purple is veronica. The first recorded use of veronica as a color name in English was in 1919.
Purple (X11)
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Sea Foam Green is a Crayola color which was introduced in 2001. It is soft, pastel shade of green, often referred to as Pale Spring Green.
Sea foam green
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Beaver is a shade of brown representative of the color of a beaver. At a hue of 22, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of beaver as a color name in English was in 1705. The color "beaver" was formulated as one of the Crayola colors in 1998. Etymologically, it's believed that the words "brown" and "beaver" ultimately stem from the same root word in English.
Beaver
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The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-2525 TPX—Magenta Haze.
Magenta Haze
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This color is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie. This was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 2003. The first recorded use of mulberry as a color name in English was in 1776. It has some similarities with the color raspberry, a shade of red also called mulberry in some countries of Latin America. General Motors Holden released a model in the color Mulberry. It was the 1979 SL/E Statesman. Prismacolor also made a pencil after the color mulberry which was number 995
Mulberry
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Mountbatten pink, also called Plymouth pink, is a naval camouflage color, a grayish tone of mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.
Mountbatten Pink
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Dark orchid is a vibrant shade of purple with a hint of pink.
Dark Orchid
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Spanish gray is the color that is called gris (gray in Spanish) 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.
Spanish gray
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Cinereous is a color, ashy gray in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a gray color tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereous, from cinis (ashes). The first recorded use of cinereous as a color name in English was in 1661.
Cinereous
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The color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993, can be described as a medium lavender gray. Before 1958, this color was known as lavender in Crayola crayons, but Crayola later renamed it to lavender pink. As a result, this color is sometimes referred to as lavender purple. It represents the appearance of distant mountains.
Purple mountain majesty
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Raw sienna is a yellowish-brown natural earth pigment, composed primarily of iron oxide hydroxide. The box shows the colour of the pigment in its natural, or raw state. It contains a large quantity of iron oxide and a small quantity (about five percent) of manganese oxide. This kind of pigment is known as yellow ochre, yellow earth, limonite, or terra gialla.The pigment name for natural raw sienna from the Colour Index International, shown on the labels of oil paints,is PY-43. This color box shows a variation of Raw Sienna from the Italian Ferrario 1919 color list.
Terra di Siena naturale, or raw sienna (Italian)
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Red-purple is the color that is called Rojo-Purpura (the Spanish word for "red-purple") 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. Although "red-purple" is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded as one of the major tones of purple.
Red-Purple
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Cardinal and gold are the official colors of the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans.
University of Southern California (USC) Cardinal
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The first recorded use of antique fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1928. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.
Antique Fuchsia
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Cool gray, is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray. Poet George Sterling once wrote a poem calling San Francisco the "cool grey city of love" The phrase cool grey as applied to San Francisco refers to the frequent fogs from the Pacific Ocean that envelop the city.
Cool gray
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Electric violet is the closest approximation to middle spectrum violet that can be made on a computer screen, given the limitations of the sRGB color gamut. It is an approximation of the color violet at about 400 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram, in the middle of the violet range of from 380 nanometers to 420 nanometers, assuming indigo as a separate spectrum color from 420 to 450 nanometers. Other names for this color are middle violet or simply violet.
Electric Violet
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Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. In a 2009 publication, the university officially lists Columbia blue as Pantone 290, though Pantone 292, may still be called Columbia blue when used on a light background.
Columbia Blue Pantone 292
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The color is defined as red in Crayola crayons. Red was one of the original colors formulated by Crayola in 1903.
Red (Crayola)
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  Apple green is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a Granny Smith apple. A darker version of this color has been used for the IRT Lexington Avenue Line since June 1979, when the NYCTA decided to assign line colors to all the routes within the major trunk lines in the Central Business District, plus different colors for services not entering Manhattan. By doing this, they scrapped the 1967 colors that were assigned separately to each service. The first recorded use of apple green as a color name in English was in 1648.
Apple green
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Moss green is a tone of green that resembles moss. The first recorded use of moss green as a color name in English was in 1884.
Moss green
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The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.
Blood red
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Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. Pantone 284 is one of "Secondary Blues" used by the university.
Columbia Blue Pantone 284
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The dark tone of raspberry, called "Raspberry" on the Xona Color List, is shown. Dark raspberry is a color that resembles the color of a black raspberry. Dark raspberry is also the color of regular raspberries that have been boiled down into raspberry jam or sauce with sugar to use for cake filling, filling for French pancakes, ice cream topping, etc.
Dark Raspberry
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Coyote brown, also known as nutria, is a color, often used in military camouflage.Coyote brown belongs to the dull yellow color subspectrum.
Coyote brown
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Spanish bistre is the color that is called bistre (the Spanish word for "bistre" is the same as the English word) 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.
Spanish bistre
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Brown can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. The color brown is seen widely in nature, wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; it is often associated with plainness, the rustic, feces, and poverty, although it does also have positive associations include baking, warmth, wildlife, and the autumn.
Brown
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Falu red or falun red (Swedish: falu rödfärg ) is a permeable red paint commonly used on wooden cottages and barns in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.
Falu red
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Violet is the seventh color of the rainbow--it is the color on the inner edge of the rainbow. Violet is the color between blue and purple. The name of the color comes from the violet, which is a small flower grown in most parts of the world. The first written use of violet as a color name in English was in 1370.
Violet
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Horizon blue is a color name famously associated with the blue-grey uniforms worn by French metropolitan troops from 1915 to 1921. The name refers to the indistinct color that separates the sky from the earth. Before its military use, the shade was already popular in the fashion world and has remained in use since then. During World War I, it also became a symbol for political groups aligned with the army.
Horizon blue
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The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-3930 TPX—Vista Blue.
Vista Blue
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