Color names

Old silver is a color formulated to resemble tarnished silver. The first recorded use of old silver as a color name in English was in 1905. The normalized color coordinates for old silver are identical to battleship gray.

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.

Sienna (from Italian: terra di Siena, meaning "Siena earth") is an earth pigment containing iron oxide and manganese oxide.In its natural state, it is yellowish brown and is called raw sienna.When heated, it becomes a reddish brown and is called burnt sienna. It takes its name from the city-state of Siena, where it was produced during the Renaissance. Along with ochre and umber,it was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings.Since the Renaissance, it has been one of the brown pigments most widely used by artists. The first recorded use of sienna as a color name in English was in 1760. The normalized color coordinates for sienna are identical to kobe, first recorded as a color name in English in 1924.

Baby blue is a tint of azure, one of the pastel colors. The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.

The color #8B0000, known as Dark Red, was introduced as part of the X11 color system in 1987.

The first recorded use of mauve taupe as a color name in English was in 1925. The normalized color coordinates for raspberry glacé are identical to raspberry glacé, first recorded as a color name in English in 1926.

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.

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.

Turkey red is a color that was widely used to dye cotton in the 18th and 19th century. It was made using the root of the rubia plant, through a long and laborious process. It originated in India or Turkey, and was brought to Europe in the 1740s. In France it was known as rouge d'Andrinople.

The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a colour name in English was in 1912.

Uranian blue is a light greenish blue, the color of Uranus.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-3250 TPX—African Violet.

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.

Pearly purple is one of the colors in the special set of metallic colored Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

The color shown is Medium Gray, or Gray, in the X11 color names. The coordinates in X11 were set at 190 to prevent gray from appearing as white on 2-bit grayscale displays.

Wood brown is a color that resembles wood. At a hue of 33, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of wood brown as a color name in English was in Robert Ridgway's 1886 book Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. Ridgway further refined the details of its color coordinates in his 1912 publication Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. The normalized color coordinates for wood brown are identical to fallow, camel and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, 1916, and 1920, respectively.

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.

The dark tone of "champagne" is the color referred to as champagne in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), listed as color sample #90.

The color name silver pink first came into use in 1948. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

Red-violet or pigment purple (pigment red-violet) represents the way the color purple (red-violet) was normally reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s on an old-fashioned RYB color wheel. The normalized color coordinates for red-violet are identical to medium violet red, which was first recorded as a color name in English with the formalization of the X11 color names over 1985–1989.

Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of red, derived from nearly pure ferric oxide (Fe2O3) of the hematite type. Modern versions are frequently made with synthetic red iron oxide. Historically, Venetian red was a red earth color often used in Italian Renaissance paintings. It was also called sinopia because the best-quality pigment came from the port of Sinop in northern Turkey. It was the major ingredient in the pigment called cinabrese, described by the 15th-century Italian painter and writer Cennino Cennini in his handbook on painting, Il libro dell'arte. The first recorded use of Venetian red as a color name in English was in 1753.

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".

Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color. The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the Munsell color system, or a "pastel purple-blue". The color can represent serenity, calmness, winter, and ice. It can also symbolize blossoming friendships, womanhood, sentimental memories, and everlasting love. The first recorded use of periwinkle as a color name in English was in 1922.

Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915. In 1987, orchid was included as one of the X11 colors.After the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991, these became known as the X11 web colors.

Green earth, also known as terre verte and Verona green, is an inorganic pigment derived from the minerals celadonite and glauconite. First used by the ancient Romans, green earth has been identified on wall paintings at Pompeii and Dura-Europos. The Renaissance painter and writer Cennino Cennini claimed that “the ancients never gilded except with this green” being used as a bole, or undercoating. In the Middle Ages one of its best-known uses was in the underpainting of flesh tones. The color in the color box matches the color called green earth in Derwent colored pencils.

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

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

Citron is a dark lemon color similar to that of the fruit citron. As a tertiary color on the RYB color wheel, it is an equal mix of orange and green pigments.

The first recorded use of chartreuse for the color that is now called chartreuse yellow in American English was in 1892. In the book Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912), "Chartreuse Yellow" is listed and illustrated.

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

Indian yellow is a complex pigment consisting primarily of euxanthic acid salts (magnesium euxanthate and calcium euxanthate), euxanthone and sulphonated euxanthone. It is also known as purree, snowshoe yellow, gaugoli, gogili, Hardwari peori, Monghyr puri, peoli, peori, peri rung, pioury, piuri, purrea arabica, pwree, jaune indien (French, Dutch), Indischgelb (German), yìndù huáng (Chinese), giallo indiano (Italian), amarillo indio (Spanish). The crystalline form dissolved in water or mixed with oil to produce a transparent yellow paint which was used in Indian frescoes, oil painting and watercolors. After application Indian yellow produced a clear, deep and luminescent orange-yellow color which, due to its fluorescence, appears especially vivid and bright in sunlight. It was said to be of a disagreeable odour. It was most used in India in the Mughal period and in Europe in the nineteenth century, before becoming commercially unavailable circa 1921.

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.

Flax or Flaxen is a pale yellowish-gray, the color of straw or unspun dressed flax.The first recorded use of flax as a color name in English was in 1915, but "flaxen" had been used to describe hair color in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens in 1849: Mr. Omer's granddaughter, Minnie, is described as "a pretty little girl with long, flaxen, curling hair."

The tone of international orange used to paint the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California is slightly lighter than the standard International orange used by military contractors and in engineering, thus increasing its visibility to ships, but darker than the one used in aerospace. The international orange paint used on the Golden Gate Bridge is specially formulated to protect the bridge from the danger of rust from salt spray off the ocean, and from the moisture of the San Francisco fog that frequently rolls in from the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate to San Francisco Bay. The 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal also uses this color.

This color is a representation of the color of pink amaranth flowers. The first recorded use of amaranth pink as a color name in English was in 1905.

Named after the fruit, the color tangerine is a tone of orange.

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.

The first recorded use of champagne as a color name in English was in 1915.

Congo pink is a moderate, yellow-toned shade of pink. The first recorded use of Congo pink as a color name in English was in 1912. "Congo pink" is an orangeish tone of pink. The normalized color coordinates for Congo pink are identical to Coral pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1892.

The color jasmine is a pale tint of yellow. It is a representation of the average color of the more yellowish lower part of the pale yellowish white colored jasmine flower.The first recorded use of jasmine as a color name in English was in 1925.

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

The color royal yellow is a representation of the color of the robes worn by the Emperor of China. The first recorded use of royal yellow as a color name in English was in 1548. Other names for this color are Chinese yellow and imperial yellow.

Pale purple is the pale tint of purple.

The color brink pink was formulated by Crayola in 1998. Since 2005 it is called pink sherbert.

Lemon is a color somewhat resembling yellow and named after the fruit. The color lemon is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a lemon. The first recorded use of lemon as a color name in English was in 1598.

Lemon glacier is a fluorescent color, presented here in its non-fluorescent form. The color lemon glacier was released by Crayola in 2009 in the extreme twistable crayons. This color is very slightly greenish looking to the naked eye (just barely detectable).

The color purple pizzazz was formulated by Crayola in 1990.