Zaffre (also spelt Zaffer), a prescientific, or alchemical substance, is a deep blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore, and is made of either an impure form of cobalt oxide or impure cobalt arsenate.During the Victorian Era, zaffre was used to prepare smalt and to stain glass blue.
The first recorded use of zaffer as a color name in English was sometime in the 1550s (exact year uncertain).
Indian red is a pigment, a variety of ocher, which gets its colour from ferric oxide, produced in India. Other shades of iron oxides include Venetian Red, English Red, and Kobe.
Chestnut is a colour similar to but separate and distinct from Indian red.
Carmine is a term for deep red colors that are slightly purplish but closer to red than crimson. Some rubies have a rich carmine color. The dark red shown here represents the raw pigment, while lighter and brighter shades come from processing it. The first recorded use of "carmine" as a color name in English was in 1523.
The web color "brown" is a medium dark red traditionally known as red-brown. Its hue code is 0, indicating it's a shade of red, not orange. The first recorded use of "red-brown" as a color name in English was in 1682.
The color pale plum is the light tone of plum, which is recognized as the web color called plum. This color is paler than the color at the head of this article and paler than the color of an actual plum.
The web color papaya whip is a pale tint of orange. It is a representation of the color that would result if mashed papayas were blended with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.
The web color called "chocolate" is actually the color of the exterior of an unripe cocoa bean pod, not the color of processed chocolate. Historically, this color is known as cocoa brown, with its first recorded use as a color name in English dating back to 1925. It may also be referred to as light chocolate or cinnamon.
The color silver sand is a soft, muted shade that resembles the light grayish tones of fine sand mixed with a hint of metallic sheen. The color name silver sand for this silver-tone has been used since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.
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.
Lion is a color that is a representation of the average color of the fur of a lion.
The lion is a feline top predator found in Africa and India.
The lion was poetically called the king of beasts in the great chain of being, one of the bases of medieval philosophy in Western civilization.
The first recorded use of lion as a color name in English was in 1551.
Mint cream is a pale pastel tint of spring green, representing the color of the interior of an after-dinner mint, which features mint-flavored buttercream inside a chocolate coating.
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.
