Color names

A color name is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. This section includes over 1,000 color names mentioned in Wikipedia articles.

The color is defined as red in Pantone. The source of this color is the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list, color No. 032M—Red.
Red (Pantone)
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Pigment red is the color red that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) magenta and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions.
Red (CMYK) (pigment red)
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French (Canada) rose is one of the brilliant raspberry color.
French (Canada) Rose
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The medium tone of spring bud, designated as "spring bud" on the ISCC-NBS color list, is displayed. The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) (handbook for stamp collectors to identify the colors of their stamps).
Spring Bud (ISCC-NBS)
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The first recorded use of snow as a color name in English was in 1000. The color snow was included as one of the X11 colors when they were formulated in 1987.
Snow
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There is no evidence that 'floral white' name was in use before the X11 color names were formulated in 1987.
Floral white
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Cornsilk is a color that is a representation of the color of cornsilk. The first recorded use of cornsilk as a color name in English was in 1927. In 1987, cornsilk was included as one of the X11 colors.
Cornsilk
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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.
Cadmium yellow
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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.
Light Goldenrod
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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.
Golden yellow
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The color pink lace is a very pale purplish pink. The color name pink lace for this pale tone of rose pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List. This color is suggestive of the color of some women's lingerie.
Pink Lace
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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.
Unbleached silk
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Mustard is a dull/dark yellow color that resembles culinary mustard. It is similar to the color Flax. The first recorded use of mustard as a color name in English was in 1886.
Mustard
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Mimi Pink is a very pale shade of purplish pink.
Mimi Pink
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In Western culture, pastel pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys.
Pastel pink
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Cotton candy is a light purplish pink color that was formulated by Crayola in 1998.
Cotton Candy
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The color cherry blossom pink is a moderately light pink. The first recorded use of cherry blossom pink as a color name in English was in 1867. Cherry blossom pink is an important color in Japanese culture.In the spring, the Japanese people gather to watch the cherry blossoms bloom during the Hanami festival.This custom has spread to the United States with the institution of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. Cherry blossom pink colored shirts are often worn to work on 15 September (a day a few days before the beginning of spring in the Southern Hemisphere) to celebrate "Cherry Blossom Day" in Brisbane, Australia.
Cherry Blossom Pink
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The name of the web color is written as "lightpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display. Although this color is called "light pink", as can be ascertained by inspecting its hex code, it is actually a slightly deeper, not a lighter, tint of pink than the color pink itself.A more accurate name for it in terms of traditional color nomenclature would therefore be medium light pink.
Light Pink
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This is the color hot pink light on the Xona.com Color List.
Light Hot Pink
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Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.
Yellow Orange
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Bright yellow (Crayola) is the main color on the Indian 200-rupee note.
Bright yellow (Crayola)
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Carnation pink resembles the flower color of a carnation plant. This shade was formulated by Crayola in 1903 and is included in Crayola's boxes of 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, and 96 colors. The first recorded use of "carnation" as a color name in English dates back to 1535.
Carnation Pink
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The web color called orange is defined in CSS as the hex triplet FFA500.
Orange (web color)
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Light salmon resembles the color salmon, but is lighter, not to be confused with dark salmon, which resembles salmon pink but is darker.
Light salmon
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Atomic tangerine was formulated by Crayola in 1990. (Atomic tangerine is supposed to be a fluorescent color, but there is no mechanism for showing fluorescence on a flat computer screen.)
Atomic tangerine
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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. The color Saffron (Hindi: भगवा, romanized: Bhagawā) is considered as a sacred color in Hinduism. According to Hindu mythology, Saffron (or Kesariya) is the color of Sunset (Sandhya) and Fire (Agni) which symbolises sacrifice, light, and quest of salvation.
Deep saffron
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American pink can be described as deep yellowish pink. This color is mentioned as shade on pink on Wikipedia.
American Pink
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The color light red, though very similar to pink, is a shade of red that is roughly 50% lighter than red.
Light red
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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.
Yellow
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Orange was one of the original colors formulated by Crayola in 1903.
Orange (Crayola)
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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.
Hot Pink
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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.
Tomato
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The color light deep pink, a bright purplish pink, is called deep pink light on the Xona.com Color List.
Light Deep Pink
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The color calledorange in Pantone is taken from the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #021 TPX—Orange.
Orange (Pantone)
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The Crayola color red-orange has been a Crayola color since 1930.
Red-Orange
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The web color orange-red was formulated in 1987 as one of the X11 colors, which became known as the X11 web colors after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991.
Orange-Red
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Coral red is a vibrant color, often described as a mix of red and orange tones.
Coral red
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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.
Coquelicot
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Electric ultramarine is the tone of ultramarine that is halfway between blue and violet on the RGB (HSV) color wheel, the expression of the HSV color space of the RGB color model.
Electric Ultramarine
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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).
Bright Pink
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This is the color Folly. It is mentioned as variations of rose color on Wikipedia article.
Folly
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The Crayola crayon color 'Baby Powder' was introduced in 1994 as part of its specialty Magic Scent crayon collection.
Baby powder
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A light orange color was formulated for Crayola colored pencils.
Light orange
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Pastel yellow can be described as a light greenish-yellow and is mentioned as a shade of yellow on Wikipedia.
Pastel yellow
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Old lace is a web color that is a very pale yellowish orange that resembles the color of an old lace tablecloth. It is one of the original X11 colors. Old lace is used as a color of a certain kind of Caucasian skin type in art.
Old lace
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The color piggy pink is a representation of the color of a pink pig. The color piggy pink was formulated by Crayola in 1998. The color was originally called pig pink, but later the name was changed to "piggy pink".
Piggy Pink
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Sandy tan is a color formulated by Crayola in 2000 for use in Crayola markers.
Sandy Tan
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French pink is the tone of pink referred to as "rose" in French, according to the widely popular Pourpre.com color list in France.
French Pink
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French fuchsia is the tone of fuchsia called fuchsia in a color list popular in France.
French Fuchsia
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Icterine is a colour, described as yellowish, jaundice-yellow or marked with yellow.It is derived from Ancient Greek ikteros (jaundice), via the Latin ictericus.It is used as an adjective in the names of birds with yellowish plumage to describe their appearance, including the icterine warbler and icterine greenbul.
Icterine
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