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.

The color canary (light greenish yellow) is shown in the color box. The first recorded use of canary yellow as a color name in English was in 1789.
Canary
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Pigment red is the color red that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) magenta and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions.
Red (CMYK) (pigment red)
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French (Canada) rose is one of the brilliant raspberry color.
French (Canada) Rose
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The first recorded use of snow as a color name in English was in 1000. The color snow was included as one of the X11 colors when they were formulated in 1987.
Snow
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Cadmium yellow 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 #FFF600 resembles this cadmium yellow pigment.
Cadmium yellow
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The web color papaya whip is a pale tint of orange. It is a representation of the color that would result if mashed papayas were blended with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.
Papaya Whip
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Mimi Pink is a very pale shade of purplish pink.
Mimi Pink
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In Western culture, pastel pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys.
Pastel pink
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The name of the web color is written as "lightpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display. Although this color is called "light pink", as can be ascertained by inspecting its hex code, it is actually a slightly deeper, not a lighter, tint of pink than the color pink itself.A more accurate name for it in terms of traditional color nomenclature would therefore be medium light pink.
Light Pink
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Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.
Yellow Orange
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Carnation pink resembles the flower color of a carnation plant. This shade was formulated by Crayola in 1903 and is included in Crayola's boxes of 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, and 96 colors. The first recorded use of "carnation" as a color name in English dates back to 1535.
Carnation Pink
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Orange peel is the color halfway between orange (color wheel) and amber on the color wheel. The first recorded use of orange peel as a color name in English was in 1839. A discussion of the difference between the color orange (the color halfway between red and yellow) and the color orange peel (the actual color of the outer skin of an orange), may be found in Maerz and Paul.
Orange peel
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American pink can be described as deep yellowish pink. This color is mentioned as shade on pink on Wikipedia.
American Pink
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Pumpkin is a color that resembles pumpkins. The first recorded use of pumpkin as a color name in English was in 1922. Pumpkin or orange is used with black for Halloween decorations.
Pumpkin
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The color light deep pink, a bright purplish pink, is called deep pink light on the Xona.com Color List.
Light Deep Pink
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The Crayola color red-orange has been a Crayola color since 1930.
Red-Orange
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The web color orange-red was formulated in 1987 as one of the X11 colors, which became known as the X11 web colors after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991.
Orange-Red
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Bright pink is a maximally saturated tone of pink that is another name for the color rose. In most Indo-European languages, the color that in English is called pink is called rosa; therefore, the color that is called rose in English is called bright rosa in most European and Latin American countries (using whatever adjective in a particular language means bright in that language).
Bright Pink
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The Crayola crayon color 'Baby Powder' was introduced in 1994 as part of its specialty Magic Scent crayon collection.
Baby powder
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Sandy tan is a color formulated by Crayola in 2000 for use in Crayola markers.
Sandy Tan
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This color can be described as light tone of apricot or pale orange yellow. It was called apricot since 1958 in Crayola crayons.
Apricot (Crayola)
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Ultra red is a color formulated by Crayola in 1972. In 1990, the name of the color was changed to wild watermelon. With a hue code of 350, 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.
Wild Watermelon
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This is the color now called scarlet in Crayola crayons. It was originally formulated as torch red in 1998 and then renamed scarlet by Crayola in 2000.
Scarlet (Crayola)
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Pale pink is a light, desaturated shade of pink
Pale Pink
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Tangelo is a shade of orange that is the color of the outer skin of the tangelo fruit.
Tangelo
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The web color ghost white is a tint of white associated with what the 'creator' of the color imagined the hue of a ghost could be. There is no evidence that this color name was in use before the X11 color names were formulated in 1987
Ghost white
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Apricot Peach is a pale light grayish tangelo color.
Apricot Peach
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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.
Vanilla Ice
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Anti-flash white is a white colour commonly seen on British, Soviet, and U.S. nuclear bombers. The purpose of the colour is to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion, protecting the aircraft and its occupants. Many Strategic Air Command nuclear bombers carried anti-flash white without insignia on the underside of the fuselage with light silver-gray or natural metal (later light camouflage) on the upper surfaces.
Anti-flash white
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Light steel blue is a soft, light tint of steel blue, commonly used as a web color.
Light Steel Blue
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Fairy Tale is a pale and soft purplish pink color resembling typical fairy outfits in fiction. It is similar to orchid pink but slightly paler and more purple-toned. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Cotton eXtended (TCX)" color list, color #13-2802 TCX—Fairy Tale.
Fairy Tale
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The color is defined as red in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5R). 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.
Red (Munsell)
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Champagne pink is a strongly yellow-hued shade of pink, sourced from the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list as color #12-1107 TPX.
Champagne Pink
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The name of the color xanthous is derived from xantho (meaning yellow or golden), from the Ancient Greek ξανθός and "ous" (meaning full of), from the Latin adjectival suffix -ōsus.
Xanthous
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The color honeydew is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a honeydew melon.
Honeydew
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Dutch white is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list popular in Australia and New Zealand.The color Dutch white was formulated in 2000.
Dutch white
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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.
Titanium yellow
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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.
Pale Dogwood
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This pale tone of spring bud is the color called spring green in Crayola crayons.
Spring Green (Crayola)
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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.
Dark salmon
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Key lime is a light lime color that is named after a Crayola Pearl Brites crayon.
Key lime
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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.
Queen Pink
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The web color known as Hunyadi yellow, also referred to as Pear gold, is historically represented on the coat of arms of John Hunyadi, a prominent Hungarian military leader and political figure of the 15th century.
Hunyadi yellow
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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.
Kobi
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Harvest gold is a shade of orange and yellow. It was popular with kitchen and other appliances during the 1970s, along with brown, burnt orange, and avocado green.
Harvest gold
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Charm pink is a medium shade of purplish pink that first came into use in 1948. Sourced from the Plochere Color System, which is widely used by interior designers, it is characterized as a medium roseish tone of pink.
Charm Pink
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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.
Lust
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Mexican pink is a color that is used in clothing such as serapes and in the craft and fine art of traditional Mexican culture. Mexican pink became known as such through the efforts of the journalist, painter, cartoonist and fashion designer Ramón Valdiosera in the mid-1940s. Another name for this color is Mexican rose, a play on the Spanish name rosa mexicano.
Mexican Pink
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This color is a representation of the color of bones. The first recorded use of bone as a color name in English was in the first decade of the 19th century (exact year uncertain).
Bone
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The color Razzmatazz is a rich shade of crimson-rose. Razzmatazz was a new Crayola crayon color chosen in 1993 as a part of the Name The New Colors Contest. It was named by then 5-year-old Laura Bartolomei-Hill. She was the youngest winner of Crayola's "Name the New Colors Contest."
Razzmatazz
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