Color names

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.

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.

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.

Byzantine blue is a color ranging from light celestial blue or lazuli to dark Egyptian blue. It is found on Byzantine frescoes of Hagia Sophia, Nerezi (Nerezian blue), in Macedonia.

Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. The first recorded use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590. Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous to tan include: tawny, tenné, and fulvous.

Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the color of buffed leather. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, buff as a descriptor of a color was first used in the London Gazette of 1686, describing a uniform to be "A Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining".

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.

Pale lilac is the color represented as lilac in the ISCC-NBS color list. The source of this color is sample 209 in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955).

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.

China pink is a dark purplish pink, with the color name first coming into use in 1948. It is sourced from the Plochere Color System, a color system widely used by interior designers since its formulation in 1948.

The color Thulian pink is also called Thulite pink; the first recorded use of Thulite pink as a color name in English was in 1912. The term Thulian pink refers to the land of Thule, the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Another name for this color is first lady. The first use of first lady as a color name in English was in 1948 when the Plochere Color System, (a color system that is widely used by interior designers) was inaugurated in 1948. The hex code for Thulian pink is identical to that of China pink and Liseran purple. The first recorded use of liseran purple as a color name in English was in 1912.

Mauve (mohv, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are more accurately classified as mauve.Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.

Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow colour which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige. Desert sand was used by General Motors, along with "rosewood", as a paint color for their early Cadillacs. In 1998, desert sand was made into a Crayola crayon colour. The color matches the palest of the three colors in the 3-color Desert Camouflage Uniform of United States Armed Forces, which in 1990 began to replace the 6-color Desert Battle Dress Uniform.

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.

The web color light coral is a pinkish-light orange color, also recognized as an HTML/CSS and X11 color name.

The color eggshell is meant as a representation of the average color of a chicken egg. In interior design, the color eggshell is commonly used when one desires a pale, warm, neutral, off-white 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.

The medium tone of "champagne" is the color referred to as champagne in the Dictionary of Color Names (1955), listed as color sample #89.

The first recorded use of baby pink as a color name in English was in 1928. In Western culture, baby pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys.

There is no evidence that White Smoke color name was in use before the X11 color names were formulated in 1987. The color is also known as Cultured Pearl, one of crayon colors issued by Crayola in its 16-pack of Pearl Brite Crayons.

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 sunset is a pale tint of orange.It is a representation of the average color of clouds when the sunlight from a sunset is reflected from them. The first recorded use of sunset as a color name in English was in 1916.

Pale purple is the pale tint of purple.

The color cantaloupe melon is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a cantaloupe, the most commonly consumed melon. The first recorded use of melon as a color name in English was in 1892. In 1958, melon was formulated as one of the Crayola colors.

The color purple pizzazz was formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Red (RGB), RGB red, or electric red is the brightest possible red that can be reproduced on a computer monitor. This color is an approximation of an orangish red spectral color. It is one of the three primary colors of light in the RGB color model, along with green and blue. This color is also the color called red in the X11 web colors, which were originally formulated in 1987. It is also called color wheel red. It is at precisely zero (360) degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel

The color razzle dazzle rose is a vivid tone of rose tending toward magenta. The color razzle dazzle rose was named by Crayola in 1990. Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been named hot magenta.

The color radical red was formulated by Crayola in 1990. With a hue code of 348, 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.

Rose pink is a reddish purple color. The first recorded use of rose pink as a color name in English was in 1760.

This is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1972 and called ultra pink. In 1990 the name was changed to shocking pink.

Safety orange (also known as blaze orange, vivid orange, OSHA orange, hunter orange, or Caltrans orange) is a hue used to set objects apart from their surroundings, particularly in complementary contrast to the azure color of the sky. (Azure is the complementary color of orange, and thus there is a stark contrast between the two colors.) The high-visibility color is commonly used for hunting during the rifle season and is also used for upland-bird hunting. Places such as construction sites use this orange to help ensure the safety of others.

An X11 color, representing the whitish color of the linen cloth. Linen color was added to the X11 color system in 1999. It is part of the extended color set that was introduced with the updates to the original X11 color list.

Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and romance. A combination of pink and white is associated with chastity and innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction. In the 21st century, pink is seen as a symbol of femininity, though this has not always been true; in the 1920s, pink was seen as a color that reflected masculinity.

Burlywood is a light to medium shade of brown that resembles the color of raw wood. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

The color defined as yellow in the NCS (Natural Color System) is NCS 0580-Y. The “Natural Color System” is widely used in Scandinavia.

Dark Gray is a deep, neutral gray, darker than average gray but still versatile and modern. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold". The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold. The word gold as a color name was first used in 1400 and in 1423 to refer to blond hair. Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold tone, or gold ground when describing a solid gold background.

Navajo White is an orangish white color, or pastel yellow orange, and derives its name from its similarity to the background color of the Navajo Nation flag. The name "Navajo White" is usually only used when referring to paint. Despite its name, the color is not a shade of white, but rather of yellow or of orange.

Dark Slate Blue is a dark bluish-purple shade that combines the depth of slate with a touch of blue. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Lawn Green is a bright, vivid shade of green that resembles freshly cut grass, often associated with vibrant nature. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Light Gray is a soft, pale shade of gray, light enough to be used as a neutral background color. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Medium Orchid is a vibrant purple shade with pink undertones, reminiscent of blooming orchids. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Seashell is an off-white color that resembles some of the very pale pinkish tones that are common in many seashells. The first recorded use of seashell as a color name in English was in 1926. In 1987, "seashell" was included as one of the X11 colors.

Cosmic latte is the average color of the universe, found by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the average color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2003 paper in which they reported that their survey of the light from over 200,000 galaxies averaged to a slightly beigeish white. The hex triplet value for cosmic latte is #FFF8E7.

Aqua Sky is the color that was chosen as the "2003 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Tigerlily is the color that was chosen as the "2004 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Honeysuckle is the color that was chosen as the "2011 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Emerald is the color that was chosen as the "2013 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Marsala is the color that was chosen as the "2015 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Ultra Violet is the color that was chosen as the "2018 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.