| Bronze | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #CD7F32 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (205, 127, 50) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (30°, 76%, 80%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (60, 81, 39°) |
| Source | /Maerz and Paul [1] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong orange |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.
The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753. [2]
| Blast-Off Bronze | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #A57164 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (165, 113, 100) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (12°, 39%, 65%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (53, 39, 24°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light reddish brown |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.
| Antique Bronze | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #665D1E |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (102, 93, 30) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (52°, 71%, 40%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (39, 37, 77°) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate olive |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The first recorded use of antique bronze as a color name in English was in 1910. [3]
Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum used in the tanning of leather.
Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
Cerise is a deep to vivid reddish pink.
Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non-spectral color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram.
Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.
Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.
Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower, but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.
In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space. In the RGB color space it is a secondary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. The complementary color of orange is azure. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Ruby is a color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished ruby gemstone and is a shade of red or pink.
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors are shown below.
The color magenta has notable tints and shades. These various colors are shown below.
Livid is a medium bluish-gray color. This color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622.
Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness. A selection of a number of these various colors is shown below.
The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades. It is one of the subtractive primary colors along with magenta, and yellow.
There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below.
Iron oxide red is a generic name of a ferric oxide pigment of the red color. Multiple shades based on both anhydrous Fe
2O
3 and its hydrates were known to painters since prehistory. The pigments were originally sourced from natural sources, since the 20th century they are mostly synthetic. These substances form one of the most commercially important groups of pigments, and their names sometimes reflect the location of a natural source, later transferred to the synthetic analog. Well-known examples include the Persian Gulf Oxide with 75% Fe
2O
3 and 25% silica, Spanish red with 85% of oxide, Tuscan red.
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel.
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