Rose (color)

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Rose
 
Color icon pink.svg
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Hex triplet #FF0080
sRGB B (r, g, b)(255, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)(330°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(55, 143, 355°)
SourceBy definition [1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid pink
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Rose is the color halfway between red, magenta and white on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.

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Rose, or vivid pink is one of the tertiary colors on the HSV (RGB) color wheel. The complementary color of rose is spring green. Sometimes rose is quoted instead as the web-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees.

Rose as a tertiary color on the RGB color wheel
   orange
   red
   rose
   magenta
   violet

Shades of rose

Etymology of rose

Pale rose-coloured hibiscus Hibiscus in rose color.JPG
Pale rose-coloured hibiscus

The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English was in 1382. [2]

The etymology of the color name rose is the same as that of the name of the rose flower. The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).

In culture

Geography

Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
A rose-red city – half as old as time!
A rose-colored Litfass column on the Rosenstrasse in Berlin today commemorates the Rosenstrasse protest (the building in which the detainees were held no longer exists). Rosenstrasse Berlin.jpg
A rose-colored Litfaß column on the Rosenstrasse in Berlin today commemorates the Rosenstrasse protest (the building in which the detainees were held no longer exists).

Music

Occult

Politics

The Salon of Mercury is part of the Grand appartement du roi in the Versailles Palace and is decorated with rose colored wallpaper. Salon de Mercure, Versailles.jpg
The Salon of Mercury is part of the Grand appartement du roi in the Versailles Palace and is decorated with rose colored wallpaper.

Religion

Anglican priests and bishop (center right) in rose vestments. Rose-vestment-bishop-willesden.jpg
Anglican priests and bishop (center right) in rose vestments.

See also

References

  1. On the RGB color wheel, derived from RGB color space, the color rose is defined as the tertiary color that is at a hue angle of 330 degrees.
  2. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203
  3. Marrakech, Morocco—The rose City.
  4. Leadbeater, C.W. The Chakras Wheaton, Illinois, U.S.A.:1926--Theosophical Publishing House Pages 54–58 Full text of the book "The Chakras" by C.W. Leadbeater with color illustrations: