Color names

Coffee is a brownish color that is a representation of the color of a roasted coffee bean. Different types of coffee beans have different colors when roasted—the color coffee represents an average. The first recorded use of coffee as a color name in English was in 1695. The normalized color coordinates for coffee are identical to Tuscan brown, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1913.

The color wine or bordeaux, vinous, vinaceous, is a dark shade of red.It is a representation of the typical color of red wine. The first recorded use of wine as a color name in English was in 1705. The term "bordeaux" is also sometimes used to describe this color.

Maya blue (Spanish: azul maya) is a unique bright azure blue pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, such as the Mayans and Aztecs.

Ruddy blue represents the coloring of the beak of the ruddy duck.

Bole is a shade of reddish brown. The color term derives from Latin bōlus (or dirt) and refers to a kind of soft fine clay whose reddish-brown varieties are used as pigments, and as a coating in panel paintings and frames underneath the paint or gold leaf.Under gold leaf, it "warms" the colour, which can have a greenish shade otherwise.However, bole in art is a good deal more red and less brown than the modern shade; it is often called Armenian bole. Although bole also means the trunk of a tree, these words are simply homographs that do not share an etymological origin.

Maroon is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown". According to multiple dictionaries, there are variabilities in defining the color maroon. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red. This suggests slight perceptual differences in the U.K. versus North America. Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red. Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red. The Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish crimson (strong red) or claret (purple color) color," while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.

Burgundy is a dark red-purplish color. The color burgundy takes its name from the Burgundy winein France. When referring to the color, "burgundy" is not usually capitalized. The color burgundy is similar to Bordeaux (#4C1C24), Merlot (#73343A), Berry (#A01641), and Redberry (#701f28). Burgundy is made of 50% red, 0% green, and 13% blue. The CMYK percentages are 0% cyan, 100% magenta, 75% yellow, 50% black. The first recorded use of "burgundy" as a color name in English was in 1881.

Chartreuse, also known as yellow-green or greenish yellow, is a color between yellow and green. It was named because of its resemblance to the green color of a French liqueur called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green; it was named because of its resemblance to the color of a similar French liqueur called yellow chartreuse.

This color was formulated for use in interior design, where a medium dark violet color is desired. The first recorded use of French lilac as a color name in the English language was in 1814. The normalized color coordinates for french lilac are identical to pomp and power, first recorded as a color name in English in 1950.

The web color medium purple is a medium shade of the bright X11 purple.

Chestnut or castaneous is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown, and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious. Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut. Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.

The color Sandy Taupe is a warm, earthy shade of brown, often referred to as Olive Brown. It has golden undertones, giving it a rich and rustic appearance. Another name of this color is Taupe sand.

Sand dune is a color that resembles the color of a sand dune composed of dark colored sand. The first recorded use of sand dune as a color name in English was in 1925. The normalized color coordinates for sand dune are identical to the color names drab, mode beige and bistre brown, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1928, and 1930.

Bistre brown can be described as a medium brownish tone of the color bistre, also known as soot brown. This is the tone of bistre that most closely matches the color sample in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul. This tone of bistre is the color of the ink that was used by the Old Masters for their drawings. The normalized color coordinates for bistre brown are identical to the color names drab, sand dune, and mode beige, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1925, and 1928.

This is the X11/HTML color pale green. Mint green is a pale tint of green that resembles the color of mint green pigment, and was a popular color in the 1990s.

The first recorded use of French beige as a color name in English was in 1927. The normalized color coordinates for French beige are identical to café au lait and Tuscan tan, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 and 1926, respectively.

Spring bud is the color that used to be called spring green before the X11 web color spring green was formulated in 1987 when the X11 colors were first promulgated.This color is now called spring bud to avoid confusion with the web color. The color is also called soft spring green, spring green (traditional), or spring green (M&P). The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English (meaning the color that is now called spring bud) was in 1766.

There is a grayish shade of magenta that is called rose quartz. The first recorded use of rose quartz as a color name in English was in 1926.

The first recorded use of rose vale as a color name in English was in 1923.

This red is a tone of Indian red, made like Indian red with pigment made from iron oxide. The first recorded use of English red as a colour name in English was in the 1700s (exact year uncertain). In the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot in 1765, alternate names for Indian red included "what one also calls, however improperly, English Red."

Candy apple red (occasionally known as apple-candy red) is the name code used by manufacturing companies to define a shade of red similar to the red sugar coating on candied apples. The typical method for producing a candy apple finish is to apply a metallic base-coat, followed by a translucent color coat. A final clear coat adds additional gloss.

Fire brick is the web color, a medium dark shade of scarlet/red.

The color Celeste is a sky bluish turquoise.

The color name irresistible first came into use in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. The normalized color coordinates for irresistible are identical to raspberry rose, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1950 in the Descriptive Color Names Dictionary.

The color Lavender (floral) matches the color shown as "lavender" (viewed under a full-spectrum fluorescent lamp) in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the world standard for color names before the introduction of computers. This color may also be called floral lavender. It is a medium violet. This tone of lavender would be the approximate color you would get if you mix 50% violet paint and 50% white paint. This lavender closely matches the color given as lavender in a basic purple color chart.

Columbia blue is a light blue color named after Columbia University. The color itself derives from the official hue of the Philolexian Society, the university's oldest student organization. Although Columbia blue is often identified with Pantone 292, the Philolexian Society first used it in the early 19th century, before the standardization of colors. Pantone 290, a slightly lighter shade of blue, has also been specified by some Columbia University offices, and is the current official color listed by the Columbia University visual communications office.

Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of withered foliage or sandy soil in fallow fields. Fallow is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of Fallow as a color name in English was in the year 1000. The color was historically often used to describe the coats of some animals, such as fallow deer. The normalized color coordinates for Fallow are identical to Wood brown, Camel and Desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1886, 1916, and 1920, respectively.

Sand is a color that resembles the color of beach sand. In fact, another name for this color is beach, an alternate color name in use for this color since 1923. The first recorded use of sand as a color name in English was in 1627. The normalized color coordinates for sand are identical to ecru, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1836. The San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball currently use Sand as one of their team colors.

The dark variation is best described as the color of the Byzantine night sky; it resembles dark blue-grey, Prussian and Navy blue, well attested on frescoes and mosaics.

Fuchsia rose is the color that was chosen as the 2001 Pantone color of the year by Pantone.

Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a "dark reddish brown." The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".

Cocoa brown, with a hue of 25, is classified as an orange-brown.

The source of pink lavender color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #14-3207 TPX—Pink Lavender.

Displayed here is the color pale aqua which can be described as very pale blue.

The pale tint of lavender is shown as lavender in sample 209 of the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names.

Cerise is a deep to vivid reddish pink. The color or name comes from the French word cerise, meaning "cherry".

The first recorded use of sunray as a color name in English was in 1926.

Aqua (Latin for "water") is a variation of the color cyan. The normalized color coordinates for the two web colors named aqua and cyan are identical. It was one of the three secondary colors of the RGB color model used on computer and television displays. In the HSV color wheel aqua is precisely halfway between blue and green. However, aqua is not the same as the primary subtractive color named process cyan used in printing. The words "aqua" and "cyan" are used interchangeably in computer graphics, and especially web design, to refer to the additive secondary color "cyan". Both colors are made exactly the same way on a computer screen, by combining blue and green light at equal and full intensity on a black screen. Traditionally, that color, defined as #00FFFF in hex, or (0,255,255) in RGB. The #00FFFF color code is called "cyan" in the RGB color but the X11 color names introduced the alternative name "aqua" for #00FFFF in 1987. Later, W3C popularized the name by using it in the named color palette of HTML 3.2 specifications.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-1755 TPX—Paradise Pink. Since it has a hue code of 347, the color paradise pink is within the range of carmine colors.

Violet is a color term derived from the flower of the same name. There are numerous variations of the color violet. The so-called web color "violet" is in actuality not really a tint of violet, a spectral color, but is a non-spectral color. The web color violet is actually a rather pale tint of magenta because it has equal amounts of red and blue (the definition of magenta for computer display), and some of the green primary mixed in, unlike most other variants of violet that are closer to blue. This same color appears as "violet" in the X11 color names.

Sandy brown is a web color that resembles the color of certain types of sand, as its name suggests.

The color tea rose is the tint of the color that is used in interior design. This color is popular in interior design for painting bedrooms, especially among women. There is a different color sometimes called tea rose, which is the color of an orange rose called a tea rose.This other color is technically Congo pink. The first recorded use of tea rose as a color name in English was in 1884.

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan,a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance. Beige began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855–60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisacode in 1877. The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887.

Cultured pearl is one of crayon colors issued by Crayola in its 16-pack of Pearl Brite Crayons. It has same hex number with the color White smoke.

Mellow yellow was first used as a color name in English in 1948 when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Plochere color list. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. Donovan's album Mellow Yellow, named after the song "Mellow Yellow", was popular during the Summer of Love in 1967.

The deep tone of "champagne" is the color called champagne in the Dictionary of Color Names (1955) in color sample #73.

Naples yellow, also called antimony yellow, is an inorganic pigment used in paintings during the period 1700–1850. Colors range from a muted, or earthy, reddish yellow pigment to a bright light yellow.It is the chemical compound lead antimonate. Also known as jaune d'antimoine, it is one of the oldest synthetic pigments. The Ancient Egyptians were known to create it. The first recorded use of Naples yellow as a color name in English was in 1738. After 1800, Naples Yellow was superseded by chrome yellow (lead chromate), cadmium sulfide, and cobalt yellow.

Stil de grain yellow or sap green is a pigment derived from berries of the buckthorn species Rhamnus saxatilis, which are commonly called Avignon berries or Persian berries after two historical areas of supply; latterly Italy was a major source. The color, whose principal chemical component is rhamnetin, was formerly called pink (or pinke); latterly, to distinguish it from light red "pink", the yellow "pink" wasqualified as Dutch pink, brown pink,English pink, Italian pink, or French pink — the first three also applied to similar quercitron dyes from the American eastern black oak, Quercus velutina. Other names are Persian berries lake, yellow berries and buckthorn berries.

This color can be described as lavender pink or pale pinkish-purple when purple is defined as equivalent to red-violet as artists do. This tone of lavender is the color designated as lavender (color #74) in the list of Crayola crayon colors. This version of "lavender" is a lot pinker than the other named shades of lavender.

Apricot is a light yellowish-orangish color that is similar to the color of apricots. However, it is paler than actual apricots.