Color names

Cambridge blue is the color commonly used by sports teams from Cambridge University. This color is actually a medium tone of spring green.Spring green colors are colors with an h code (hue code) of between 135 and 165; this color has an h code of 140, putting it within the range of spring green colors on the RGB color wheel.

This is a variation of acid green mentioned on Wikipedia. Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.

Blue bell is a shade of blue-gray. It is also a Crayola color. It represents the bluebell flower. The first recorded use of bluebell as a color name in English was in 1920.

Cerulean, also spelled caerulean, is a variety of the hue of blue that may range from a light azure blue to a more intense sky blue, and may be mixed as well with the hue of green. The first recorded use of cerulean as a colour name in English was in 1590. The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, "dark blue, blue, or blue-green", which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, "heaven, sky".

The first recorded use of "flirt" as a color name in English was in 1928. In 2001, "flirt" was included as one of the colors on the Xona Color List.

Baby blue eyes is a rich tone of baby blue. The source of this color is the color that is called baby blue eyes in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

The web colour sienna is defined by the list of X11 colours used in web browsers and web design.

The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple. This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors. This color can be called X11 purple. The traditional name for this tone of purple is veronica. The first recorded use of veronica as a color name in English was in 1919.

Sea Foam Green is a Crayola color which was introduced in 2001. It is soft, pastel shade of green, often referred to as Pale Spring Green.

Beaver is a shade of brown representative of the color of a beaver. At a hue of 22, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of beaver as a color name in English was in 1705. The color "beaver" was formulated as one of the Crayola colors in 1998. Etymologically, it's believed that the words "brown" and "beaver" ultimately stem from the same root word in English.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-2525 TPX—Magenta Haze.

Amaranth deep purple is the tone of amaranth that is called amaranth in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color.

In cosmetology, a brighter tone of burgundy called vivid burgundy is used for coloring hair.

Vivid violet is a color approximately equivalent to the violet seen at the extreme edge of human visual perception. On the CIE chromaticity diagram, it corresponds to a visual stimulus of approximately 380 nm on the spectrum, and it is also known as extreme violet.

This color is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie. This was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 2003. The first recorded use of mulberry as a color name in English was in 1776. It has some similarities with the color raspberry, a shade of red also called mulberry in some countries of Latin America. General Motors Holden released a model in the color Mulberry. It was the 1979 SL/E Statesman. Prismacolor also made a pencil after the color mulberry which was number 995

A brighter version of Cardinal color is the official color of Stanford University.

The color Japanese carmine, shown in the color box, is called enji-iro (臙脂色) in Japanese, meaning 'cochineal/rouge color.' The term enji (臙脂) refers to rouge, the cosmetic, which historically was made from a dye produced by the cochineal insect, known as enji-mushi (臙脂虫). The name enji is derived from Yan, an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty, as the use of rouge in China is believed to have originated there and was later adopted in Japan.

Olivine is the typical color of the mineral olivine. The first recorded use of olivine as a color name in English was in 1912.

Mountbatten pink, also called Plymouth pink, is a naval camouflage color, a grayish tone of mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.

The first recorded use of copper rose as a color name in English was in 1928.

The first recorded use of golden brown as a color name in English was in the year 1891.Golden brown is commonly referenced in recipes as the desired color of properly baked and fried foods.

Dark orchid is a vibrant shade of purple with a hint of pink.

In a press release, Pantone declared the pale hue of cerulean, shown in the color box here, as the 'Color of the Millennium.' This specific shade comes from the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list and is identified as Cerulean with the code #15-4020 TPX.

Spanish gray is the color that is called gris (gray in Spanish) 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.

Cinereous is a color, ashy gray in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a gray color tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereous, from cinis (ashes). The first recorded use of cinereous as a color name in English was in 1661.

'Tropical Indigo' is the color that is called añil 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.

The color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993, can be described as a medium lavender gray. Before 1958, this color was known as lavender in Crayola crayons, but Crayola later renamed it to lavender pink. As a result, this color is sometimes referred to as lavender purple. It represents the appearance of distant mountains.

Raw sienna is a yellowish-brown natural earth pigment, composed primarily of iron oxide hydroxide. The box shows the colour of the pigment in its natural, or raw state. It contains a large quantity of iron oxide and a small quantity (about five percent) of manganese oxide. This kind of pigment is known as yellow ochre, yellow earth, limonite, or terra gialla.The pigment name for natural raw sienna from the Colour Index International, shown on the labels of oil paints,is PY-43. This color box shows a variation of Raw Sienna from the Italian Ferrario 1919 color list.

Red-purple is the color that is called Rojo-Purpura (the Spanish word for "red-purple") 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. Although "red-purple" is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded as one of the major tones of purple.

The web color dark violet which is equivalent to pigment violet, i.e., the color violet as it would typically be reproduced by artist's paints, colored pencils, or crayons as opposed to the brighter "electric" violet that it is possible to reproduce on a computer screen.

Midnight blue became an official crayola color in 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1903, it was called Prussian blue.

Pistachio is a dull yellowish-green color resembling the pistachio nut.

Cardinal and gold are the official colors of the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans.

Stone gray is a color represented in the list of RAL classic colors from RAL colour standard. This is the main color on the Indian 500-rupee note.

The first recorded use of antique fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1928. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

Cool gray, is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray. Poet George Sterling once wrote a poem calling San Francisco the "cool grey city of love" The phrase cool grey as applied to San Francisco refers to the frequent fogs from the Pacific Ocean that envelop the city.

The X11 web color Midnight Blue is shown in color box. There are two major shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color. This color was originally called midnight. The first recorded use of midnight as a color name in English was in 1915.

Artichoke is a color that is a representation of the color of a raw fresh uncooked artichoke. Another name for this color is artichoke chartreuse or artichoke green. The first recorded use of "artichoke green" as a color name in English was in 1905.

Electric violet is the closest approximation to middle spectrum violet that can be made on a computer screen, given the limitations of the sRGB color gamut. It is an approximation of the color violet at about 400 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram, in the middle of the violet range of from 380 nanometers to 420 nanometers, assuming indigo as a separate spectrum color from 420 to 450 nanometers. Other names for this color are middle violet or simply violet.

Morning sky, also known as Morning blue is a representation of the color of the morning sky. The year of the first recorded use of morning blue as a color name in English is unknown.

Cool gray is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. Another name for this color is gray-blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray.

Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. In a 2009 publication, the university officially lists Columbia blue as Pantone 290, though Pantone 292, may still be called Columbia blue when used on a light background.

The color is defined as red in Crayola crayons. Red was one of the original colors formulated by Crayola in 1903.

Taupe gray is a muted, warm gray color with brown undertones.

The color name jordy blue has been in use since 2001, when this color was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

  Apple green is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a Granny Smith apple. A darker version of this color has been used for the IRT Lexington Avenue Line since June 1979, when the NYCTA decided to assign line colors to all the routes within the major trunk lines in the Central Business District, plus different colors for services not entering Manhattan. By doing this, they scrapped the 1967 colors that were assigned separately to each service. The first recorded use of apple green as a color name in English was in 1648.

Moss green is a tone of green that resembles moss. The first recorded use of moss green as a color name in English was in 1884.

Twilight lavender is a color created by Crayola in 1990 as part of its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors. Although it's intended to be a metallic shade, there is no way to display metallic colors accurately on a computer.

The color Solid Pink, a dark reddish-pink, is shown in color box. The color name solid pink for this extremely dark tone of pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.