Color names

The deep tone of mauve is referred to as mauve by Pourpre.com, a color list that is widely popular in France.

This is a Crayola color that was formulated in 1949; it was originally called brilliant rose but the name was changed in 1958 to magenta. This color has a hue angle of 329, which is close to the hue angle of the color rose, which is 330.

This is a variation on the standard RGB or Hex combination that produces a truer Scarlet color on some monitors. It is slightly more orange than the standard Scarlet RGB value of 255, 36, 0, but does give a truer color on displays where the red dominates over the orange and would otherwise make the color appear more as a normal red rather than a genuine Scarlet.

French (Canada) rose is one of the brilliant raspberry color.

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.

Light Goldenrod is a web color that can be described as a light greenish-yellow. It is mentioned on Wikipedia as one of the variations of goldenrod, a color that resembles the goldenrod plant.

Golden yellow is the color halfway between amber and yellow on the RGB color wheel. It is a color that is 87.5% yellow and 12.5% red. The first recorded use of golden yellow as a color name in English was in the year 1597. Golden Yellow is one of the colors of the United States Air Force, along with Ultramarine Blue.

Unbleached silk is one of the Japanese traditional colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimonos. The name of this color in Japanese is shironericode.

The deep tone of peach known as peach in Crayola crayons was previously called flesh before 1962. The name change to peach was made, ostensibly in recognition of the Civil Rights Movement.

Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.

Bright yellow (Crayola) is the main color on the Indian 200-rupee note.

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.

American pink can be described as deep yellowish pink. This color is mentioned as shade on pink on Wikipedia.

Yellow is the color between green and orange on the light spectrum. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, such as painting and printing. In the RGB color model, used for creating colors on television and computer screens, yellow is a secondary color made by combining red and green at equal intensity. The color box shows the most intense yellow representable in the 8-bit RGB color model. This color is also called "color wheel yellow" and is located at 60 degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel. Its complementary color is blue.

Orange was one of the original colors formulated by Crayola in 1903.

The name of the web color is written as "hotpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display. This shade of pink, along with bubblegum pink, was a very popular aesthetic during the 2000s.

The web color tomato is a medium reddish-orange color that approximates the color of common supermarket tomatoes. Many vine-ripened tomatoes are a bit redder. The color of tomato soup is slightly less saturated. The first recorded use of tomato as a color name in English was in 1891. When the X11 color names were invented in 1987, the color tomato was formulated as one of them.

The color light deep pink, a bright purplish pink, is called deep pink light on the Xona.com Color List.

The Crayola color red-orange has been a Crayola color since 1930.

Coquelicot is a shade of red. The term was originally a French vernacular name for the wild corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas, which is distinguished by its bright red color, and orange tint. It eventually passed into English usage as the name of a color based upon that of the flower. The first recorded use of this usage was in the year 1795. Claude Monet used this color in Les Coquelicots or Poppies Blooming in 1873.

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).

French fuchsia is the tone of fuchsia called fuchsia in a color list popular in France.

The color yellow in Crayola crayons was one of the original colors formulated in 1903.

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.

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.

Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived. The hue of the spice saffron is primarily due to the carotenoid chemical crocin.

Tangelo is a shade of orange that is the color of the outer skin of the tangelo fruit.

The name rose bonbon translates loosely from French into English as candy rose or candy pink, or more specifically as bonbon rose or bonbon pink – presumably referring to bonbons that are coated with icing that is colored rose bonbon. Rose bonbon is a tone of rose that is popular in France.

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

Apricot Peach is a pale light grayish tangelo color.

Mint cream is a soft, pale pastel shade of spring green. It resembles the color of the creamy, mint-flavored filling found inside a chocolate-coated after-dinner mint.

Wheat is a color that resembles the light yellow of the wheat grain. The first recorded use of wheat as a color name in English was in 1711. Wheat is one of the X11 web colors.

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.

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.

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.

MU Gold is used by the University of Missouri as the official school color along with black. Mizzou Identity Standards designated the color for web development as well as logos and images that developers are asked to follow in the University's Guidelines for using official Mizzou logos.

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.

The color defined as yellow in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5Y) is shown at apex of color wheel.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.

Alabaster has been used as a color in English since at least 1594 (in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece), but the origin of the RGB coordinates is not known.

Carrot orange is a tint of orange that is a representation of the color of the raw carrot vegetable. The first recorded use of carrot orange as a color name in English was in 1684.

Cadmium orange 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 #ED872D resembles this cadmium orange pigment.

This pale tone of spring bud is the color called spring green in Crayola crayons.

Key lime is a light lime color that is named after a Crayola Pearl Brites crayon.

The color peridot is a shade of lime with lemon undertones, which represents the color of the peridot gemstone. Peridot is the birthstone for those born in August.

The first recorded use of "blush" as a color name in English was in 1590. "Blush" has been a Crayola color since 1998. It was originally called "cranberry", until 2005.

Pale red-violet, identical to the web color "pale violet red," is a pale tone of red-violet.

This color was originally called harvest in the 1920s. The first recorded use of harvest as a color name in English was in 1923. Harvest gold was a common color for metal surfaces (including automobiles and household appliances), as was the color avocado, during the whole decade of the 1970s. They were both also popular colors for shag carpets. Both colors (as well as shag carpets) went out of style by the early 1980s.

The pale tone of copper displayed is the color referred to as copper in Crayola crayons. This color was formulated by Crayola in 1903.

Rusty red is a color formulated by Crayola in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty crayon box of metallic colors.

This color is the medium tone of vermilion called vermilion on the Plochere color list, which was formulated in 1948 and is used widely by interior designers.