| Heliotrope | |
|---|---|
 Heliotrope flowers | |
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #DF73FF |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (223, 115, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (286°, 55%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (66, 102, 295°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul [1] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower.
The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. [2]
| Heliotrope Gray | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #AA98A9 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (170, 152, 169) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (303°, 11%, 67%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (65, 14, 310°) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS [3] [4] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Pale purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a colour name in English was in 1912. [5]
| Heliotrope Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #AA00BB |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (170, 0, 187) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (295°, 100%, 73%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (41, 99, 300°) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
| Old Heliotrope | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #563C5C |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (86, 60, 92) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (289°, 35%, 36%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (29, 23, 299°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul [6] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
At right is displayed the colour old heliotrope.
Another name for this colour is old helio.
The first recorded use of old helio as a colour name in English was in 1926. [7]
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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.
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.
Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by average people as opposed to website designers. The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side. In paints, the color lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint.
Persian blue comes in three major tones: Persian blue proper: a bright medium blue; medium Persian blue ; and a kind of dark blue which is referred to as Persian indigo, dark Persian blue, or regimental, that is much closer to the web color indigo.
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Payne's grey is a dark blue-grey colour used in painting. Originally a mixture of iron blue, yellow ochre and crimson lake, Payne's grey now is often a mixture of blue and black, or of ultramarine and burnt sienna. The colour is named after William Payne, who painted watercolours in the late 18th century, who most likely developed the colour while trying to produce a mixer that was less intense than black. Payne's grey was deemed an obsolete term in the early 19th century, but is still used by artists today.
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.
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Jungle green is a color that is a rich tone of medium spring green.
Electric blue is a color whose definition varies but is often considered close to cyan, and which is a representation of the color of lightning, an electric spark, and the color of ionized argon gas; it was originally named after the ionized air glow produced during electrical discharges, though its meaning has broadened to include shades of blue that are metaphorically "electric" by virtue of being "intense" or particularly "vibrant". Electric arcs can cause a variety of color emissions depending on the gases involved, but blue and purple are typical colors produced in the troposphere where oxygen and nitrogen dominate.
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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.
Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.
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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.
There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below.
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel.
