Color names

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

Golden poppy is a tone of gold that is the color of the California poppy—the official state flower of California—the Golden State. The first recorded use of golden poppy as a color name in English was in 1927.

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.

Chalk white is a tint of white resembling the chalk color.

Blonde is a light greenish-yellow color, classified as a shade of yellow on Wikipedia.

The shade maize or corn refers to a specific tone of yellow; it is named for the cereal of the same name—maize (called corn in the United States and Canada).In public usage, maize can be applied to a variety of shades, ranging from light yellow to a dark shade that borders on orange, since the color of maize (the actual corn) may vary. The first recorded use of maize as a color name in English was in 1861.

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.

Light goldenrod yellow is a soft, pale yellow web color with a warm golden hue.

Maximum yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1926 to 1944.

Antique white is a web color. The color name antique white began to be used in 1987 when the X11 colors were first formulated.

The orangish tone known as tan has been used in Crayola crayons since 1958 and in Crayola markers since 1990.

Bone white is a yellowish-gray shade of white which represents the color of natural, unbleached bones.

Pale pink is a light, desaturated shade of pink

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

Orange-yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Manhattan is a pale light grayish brown color.

Spanish pink is the color that is called Rosa (the Spanish word for "pink") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Violet red is a bright tone of red-violet and has been part of the Crayola color collection since 1958.

The color French rose is also called France rose. The first recorded use of France rose as a color name in English was in 1926. This color shown here matches exactly the color sample shown as "France rose" in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of 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.

Cyclamen is a color that is a representation of the color of cyclamens. It is named after the flower. The year of the first recorded use of cyclamen as a color name in English is currently unknown.

There is no evidence that White solid color name was in use before the X11 color names were formulated in 1987. Sometimes also known as Ghost White, the color has marked blue hues, although is otherwise very close to being completely white in the RGB color system.

In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.

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.

Light steel blue is a soft, light tint of steel blue, commonly used as a web color.

Fairy Tale is a pale and soft purplish pink color resembling typical fairy outfits in fiction. It is similar to orchid pink but slightly paler and more purple-toned. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Cotton eXtended (TCX)" color list, color #13-2802 TCX—Fairy Tale.

The color is defined as red in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5R). 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.

In 2001, parchment was made into one of the colors on the Xona.com color list.

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.

The name of the color xanthous is derived from xantho (meaning yellow or golden), from the Ancient Greek ξανθός and "ous" (meaning full of), from the Latin adjectival suffix -ōsus.

The color honeydew is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a honeydew melon.

Light khaki, also known as khaki tan or simply tan, is a pale shade of khaki.

Violet-red (PerBang) is the bright color of red-violet.

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.

Cameo pink is a medium light tone of rose pink. The first recorded use of cameo pink as a color name in English was in 1912.

Pale goldenrod is a light, soft yellow web color with a gentle golden hue.

Titanium yellow, also nickel antimony titanium yellow, nickel antimony titanium yellow rutile, CI Pigment Yellow 53, or C.I. 77788, is a yellow pigment with the chemical composition of NiO·Sb2O3·20TiO2. It is a complex inorganic compound.

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.

Pale Dogwood is a beige-tinted shade of pink. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Cotton eXtended (TCX)" color list, color #13-1404 TCX—Pale Dogwood.

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.

Rose Pompadour is a desaturated, purplish pink color designed by Sèvres for Madame de Pompadour in 18th century France.

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

Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name. It is currently unknown when marigold was first used as a colour name, although the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield used it to describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural (1914).

Dark salmon is a darker shade of the color salmon. Like the related web colors light salmon and salmon, it is commonly used in HTML and CSS for web design.

This variation of burnt sienna is from the Maerz and Paul "A Dictionary of Color" from 1930. It is considerably lighter than most other versions of burnt sienna. It was a mix of burnt orange and raw sienna.