Color names

There is a grayish shade of magenta that is called rose quartz. The first recorded use of rose quartz as a color name in English was in 1926.

This color is a representation of the color of purple amaranth flowers. The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color name in English was in 1912.

The first recorded use of rose vale as a color name in English was in 1923.

Candy apple red (occasionally known as apple-candy red) is the name code used by manufacturing companies to define a shade of red similar to the red sugar coating on candied apples. The typical method for producing a candy apple finish is to apply a metallic base-coat, followed by a translucent color coat. A final clear coat adds additional gloss.

Fire brick is the web color, a medium dark shade of scarlet/red.

The color Lavender (floral) matches the color shown as "lavender" (viewed under a full-spectrum fluorescent lamp) in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the world standard for color names before the introduction of computers. This color may also be called floral lavender. It is a medium violet. This tone of lavender would be the approximate color you would get if you mix 50% violet paint and 50% white paint. This lavender closely matches the color given as lavender in a basic purple color chart.

Desert is a color that resembles the color of the flat areas of a desert. The first recorded use of desert as a color name in English was in 1920. The normalized color coordinates for desert are identical to fallow, wood brown and camel, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, 1886, and 1916, respectively.

Fuchsia rose is the color that was chosen as the 2001 Pantone color of the year by Pantone.

Cocoa brown, with a hue of 25, is classified as an orange-brown.

Byzantine blue is a color ranging from light celestial blue or lazuli to dark Egyptian blue. It is found on Byzantine frescoes of Hagia Sophia, Nerezi (Nerezian blue), in Macedonia.

Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the color of buffed leather. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, buff as a descriptor of a color was first used in the London Gazette of 1686, describing a uniform to be "A Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining".

Displayed here is the color pale aqua which can be described as very pale blue.

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 of an actual plum.

China pink is a dark purplish pink, with the color name first coming into use in 1948. It is sourced from the Plochere Color System, a color system widely used by interior designers since its formulation in 1948.

The color Thulian pink is also called Thulite pink; the first recorded use of Thulite pink as a color name in English was in 1912. The term Thulian pink refers to the land of Thule, the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Another name for this color is first lady. The first use of first lady as a color name in English was in 1948 when the Plochere Color System, (a color system that is widely used by interior designers) was inaugurated in 1948. The hex code for Thulian pink is identical to that of China pink and Liseran purple. The first recorded use of liseran purple as a color name in English was in 1912.

Alizarin crimson is a shade of red that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel and has a blue undertone. It is named after the organic dye alizarin, found in the madder plant, and the related synthetic lake pigment alizarin crimson (PR83 in the Color Index). William Henry Perkin had co-discovered a way to synthesize the pigment alizarin, which became known as the color alizarin crimson. Its consistency and lightfastness quickly made it a favourite red pigment for artists.

Rose madder (also known as madder) is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum. Madder lake contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin.As a paint, it has been described as a fugitive, transparent, nonstaining, mid valued, moderately dull violet red pigment in tints and medium solutions, darkening to an impermanent, dull magenta red in masstone.

Tango pink is a moderate reddish pink, also known simply as tango. The first recorded use of tango pink as a color name in English was in 1925. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow colour which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige. Desert sand was used by General Motors, along with "rosewood", as a paint color for their early Cadillacs. In 1998, desert sand was made into a Crayola crayon colour. The color matches the palest of the three colors in the 3-color Desert Camouflage Uniform of United States Armed Forces, which in 1990 began to replace the 6-color Desert Battle Dress Uniform.

The web color light coral is a pinkish-light orange color, also recognized as an HTML/CSS and X11 color name.

The color eggshell is meant as a representation of the average color of a chicken egg. In interior design, the color eggshell is commonly used when one desires a pale, warm, neutral, off-white color.

Alice blue is a pale tint of azure that was favored by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American painter and daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, which sparked a fashion sensation in the United States. The hit song "Alice Blue Gown", inspired by Longworth's signature gown, premiered in Harry Tierney's 1919 Broadway musical Irene. The color is specified by the United States Navy for use in insignia and trim on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. "AliceBlue" is also one of the original 1987 X11 color names list.

The source of the color orchid pink is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #13-2010 TPX—Orchid Pink.

The medium tone of "champagne" is the color referred to as champagne in the Dictionary of Color Names (1955), listed as color sample #89.

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan,a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance. Beige began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855–60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisacode in 1877. The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887.

Mellow yellow was first used as a color name in English in 1948 when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Plochere color list. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. Donovan's album Mellow Yellow, named after the song "Mellow Yellow", was popular during the Summer of Love in 1967.

Shocking pink is bold and intense. It takes its name from the tone of pink used in the lettering on the box of the perfume called Shocking, designed by Leonor Fini for the Surrealist fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1937. The color shown here matches the color of the lettering on the original box. This in turn was inspired by the Tête de Belier (Ram's Head), a 17.27 ct pink diamond from Cartier owned by heiress Daisy Fellowes, who was one of Schiaparelli's best clients.

The color cantaloupe melon is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a cantaloupe, the most commonly consumed melon. The first recorded use of melon as a color name in English was in 1892. In 1958, melon was formulated as one of the Crayola colors.

The color radical red was formulated by Crayola in 1990. With a hue code of 348, 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 a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1972 and called ultra pink. In 1990 the name was changed to shocking pink.

Bisque is a light, warm shade of orange with a slight pink tint, reminiscent of baked goods. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

The color defined as yellow in the NCS (Natural Color System) is NCS 0580-Y. The “Natural Color System” is widely used in Scandinavia.

Lawn Green is a bright, vivid shade of green that resembles freshly cut grass, often associated with vibrant nature. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. This name may also be substituted for "peachy". Like the color apricot, the color peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color apricot) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.

Medium Orchid is a vibrant purple shade with pink undertones, reminiscent of blooming orchids. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Cosmic latte is the average color of the universe, found by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the average color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2003 paper in which they reported that their survey of the light from over 200,000 galaxies averaged to a slightly beigeish white. The hex triplet value for cosmic latte is #FFF8E7.

Saddle Brown is a mid brown common for the stained leather of a saddle. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Amber is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal lamps. In North America, SAE standard J578 governs the colorimetry of vehicle lights, while outside North America the internationalized European ECE regulations hold force. Both standards designate a range of orange-yellow hues in the CIE color space as "amber". In the past, the ECE amber definition was more restrictive than the SAE definition, but the current ECE definition is identical to the more permissive SAE standard. The SAE formally uses the term "yellow amber", though the color is most often referred to as "yellow". This is not the same as selective yellow, a color used in some fog lamps and headlamps.

Cerulean is the color that was chosen as the "2000 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Laser lemon is a fluorescent color, shown here in its non-fluorescent form. The color laser lemon was named by Crayola in 1990.Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been incorrectly been named chartreuse. In actuality, a chartreuse color is one in which the green hex code has a slightly higher value than the red hex code in the RGB values of the color.

Aqua Sky is the color that was chosen as the "2003 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Tigerlily is the color that was chosen as the "2004 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Honeysuckle is the color that was chosen as the "2011 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Radiant Orchid is the color that was chosen as the "2014 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Marsala is the color that was chosen as the "2015 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Serenity is the color that was chosen as the "2016 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Classic Blue is the color that was chosen as the "2020 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Illuminating is the color that was chosen as the "2021 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

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. India saffron (Kesara/Kesariya), representing courage and sacrifice, was chosen for one of the three bands of the National Flag of India, along with white (peace and truth) and what is now called India green (faith and chivalry).

Displayed here is the color called "Illuminating Emerald" in Crayola Metallic FX Crayons from 2001, a set of 16 metallic crayons whose names were chosen through a contest open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.