Color names

Cool gray is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. Another name for this color is gray-blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray.

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.

The color is defined as red in Crayola crayons. Red was one of the original colors formulated by Crayola in 1903.

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.

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.

Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. Pantone 284 is one of "Secondary Blues" used by the university.

Asparagus is a tone of chartreuse that is named after the vegetable. Crayola created this color in 1993 as one of the 16 to be named in the Name the Color Contest. It is also the color of a wild asparagus plant blowing in the wind of the 1949 classic film Sands of Iwo Jima. Another name for this color is asparagus green. The first recorded use of "asparagus green" as a color name in English was in 1805.

Cambridge Blue is the colour commonly used by sports teams from the University of Cambridge. There is contextual and historical variation. The colour used since the mid-20th century by Cambridge University Boat Club is greener than that used by Cambridge University R.U.F.C. (in rugby union). This rowing colour was created when Alf Twinn, the boatman from 1934 to 1984, added more yellow to this shade, reportedly to distinguish it from the rugby club's colour.

The first recorded use of antique ruby as a color name in English was in 1926. The color antique ruby is a dark tone of ruby.

Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. Pantone 285 is one of "Secondary Blues" used by the university.

Smokey topaz, classified as a red-brown or orange-brown with a hue of exactly 15, can also be referred to as vermilion-brown. This color was created by Crayola in 1994 as part of the Gem Tones set.

Coyote brown, also known as nutria, is a color, often used in military camouflage.Coyote brown belongs to the dull yellow color subspectrum.

Aquamarine is a color that is a light tint of spring green, in between cyan and green on the color wheel. It is named after the mineral aquamarine, a gemstone mainly found in granite rocks. The first recorded use of aquamarine as a color name in English was in 1598.

Medium sky blue, also known as sky blue in Crayola crayons, was introduced by Crayola in 1958. This color can be found in the 32, 48, 64, 96, and 120 packs of crayons.

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.

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.

Chartreuse green (the web color known as chartreuse since the X11 colors were created in 1987 and then renamed the X11 web colors in 1991) is a web color that was named because it looked like the green color of a French liqueur called green chartreuse, made since 1764. Before 1987, this color was called yellow-green, but that name is now used for the web color "yellow-green"

The tertiary color on the HSV color wheel (also known as the RGB color wheel) precisely halfway between blue and magenta is called color wheel violet. This tone of violet—an approximation of the color violet at about 417 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram—is shown in the color obx. This tone of violet is actually somewhat toward indigo assuming indigo is accepted as a separate spectrum color, usually quoted as having a range of from about 420 to 450 nanometers. Another name for this color is near violet.

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.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-3930 TPX—Vista Blue.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-6442 TPX—Bud Green.

This Crayola colour was formulated in 2003. It is intended to represent the colour of the sky on a cloudy, stormy day.

Shadow blue is a color formulated by Crayola in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors. Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

Sonic silver is a tone of silver included in Metallic FX crayons, specialty crayons formulated by Crayola in 2001.

The color Xanadu (#738678) has its origins in the natural world, specifically named after the Philodendron xanadu plant. The color Xanadu is a grayish-green hue, and it takes inspiration from the muted tones often found in the plant's leaves. The color ultimately comes from the 2001 Resene RGB Values List.

Persian plum, found in the Xona.com Color List, is traditionally referred to as prune, representing the average color of prunes. While "prune" is the French word for "plum," in English, it specifically refers to dried plums. This color reflects the hue of cooked dried plums (prunes). The first recorded use of "prune" as a color name in English dates back to 1789.

Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789.

Cerulean frost is one of the colours in the special set of metallic coloured Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colours of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Reseda green, is a shade of greyish green in the classic range of colors of the German RAL colour standard, in which it is named "RAL 6011". The name derives from the color of the leaves of Reseda odorata, commonly known as mignonette.

Field drab is one of the twelve official camouflage colors of the United States Army.

The color name eminence, used since the 1800s, has been in modern use for this color since 2001 when the Xona.com Color List was first promulgated.

The first recorded use of Russian green as a color name in English was in the 1830s (exact year uncertain). The term appears to refer to the medium shade of green worn by most regiments of the Imperial Russian Army from 1700 to 1914.

This is the color bright green.

"Tyrian purple" is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated "purpura". Other contemporary English names for purpura are "imperial purple" and "royal purple". The English name "purple" itself originally denominated the specific color purpura. Purpura is the color of a dye extracted from a mollusk found on the shores of the city of Tyre in ancient Phoenicia (contemporarily in Lebanon), which color in classical antiquity was a symbol of royalty and political authority because only the very wealthy could afford it, including the Roman Emperors. Therefore, Tyrian purple was also denominated "imperial purple".

The color rosewood is named after rosewood, any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours. It is hard, tough, strong, and dense. True rosewoods come from trees of the genus Dalbergia, but other woods are often called rosewood. Rosewood takes a high polish and is used for luxury furniture-making, flooring, musical instruments, and turnery. The first recorded use of rosewood as a color name in English was in 1892.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-3838 TPX—Ultra Violet. Ultra Violet was named as Pantone's Color of the Year for 2018.

Walnut brown is a dark brown color; a representation of the color made from walnut hulls. At a hue of 30, it is classified as an orange-brown.

Seal brown is a rich dark brown color, resembling the color of the dyed fur from the fur seal.

Blurple is a vivid purplish blue hue. It is used in the new Discord logo.

Liberty is a strong blue color. The first recorded use of liberty as a color name in English was in 1918.

For printed material, purple (Pantone #268+) is the official school color of Kansas State University. Traditionally, the school has referred to this darker and bluer shade as Royal Purple. For the web, #512888 is the official color, even though that hex triplet is not a direct conversion from Pantone 268+.

The source of this colour is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" colour list, colour #18-3937 TPX—Blue Yonder.

The color shown is called Puce in the Pantone color list. It is sourced from the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce.

Purple navy is a color that has been used by some navies. "Purple navy" in this color terminology usage is regarded as a shade of indigo, a color which can be regarded as a tone of purple when using the common English definition of purple, i.e., a color between blue and red. The first recorded use of purple navy as a color name in English was in 1926. The source of this color is Dictionary of Color Names (1955).

The color resembles the shade of blue seen on the flag of the United Nations.

Café noir, also known as black coffee, is a color that represents the hue of brewed black coffee. The first recorded use of "café noir" as a color name in English dates back to 1928.

Harlequin is a color described as being located between green and yellow (closer to green than to yellow) on the color wheel. On color plate 17 in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the color harlequin is shown as being a highly saturated rich color at a position halfway between chartreuse and green. Thus in modern color terminology, harlequin is the color halfway between green and chartreuse green on the RGB color wheel. The first recorded use of harlequin as a color name in English was in 1923.

Magnolia is a colour named after the flowering plant of the genus Magnolia. As magnolias have flowers of more than one colour, mainly cream or pale purple, magnolia may refer to different colours in different countries. An early use of magnolia as a colour name in English was in 1880, describing it as a "tint of cream-color".

Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue. It is said to have been created by clothiers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of whom won a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III.

Black bean is a color that resembles black beans.It is the color called bean on the Xona.com Color List, which was formulated in 2001.