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| Ruby | |
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 A natural ruby | |
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E0115F |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (224, 17, 95) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (337°, 92%, 88%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (48, 130, 1°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul [1] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.
The first recorded use of ruby as a color name in English was in 1572. [2]
| Rubine Red | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #D10056 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (209, 0, 86) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (335°, 100%, 82%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (45, 124, 1°) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is the Pantone color rubine red.
| Ruber | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #CE4676 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (206, 70, 118) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (339°, 66%, 81%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (50, 89, 355°) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS [3] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The color ruber is displayed to the right.
| Medium Ruby | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #AA4069 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (170, 64, 105) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (337°, 62%, 67%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (43, 68, 352°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Medium ruby is the color called ruby in Crayola Gem Tones, a specialty set of crayons introduced by the Crayola company in 1994.
| Ruby Red | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #9B111E |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (155, 17, 30) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (354°, 89%, 61%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (33, 98, 10°) |
| Source | RAL [4] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is the color ruby red.
This is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, a color system widely used in Europe. The RAL color list originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.
| Big Dip O'Ruby | |
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| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #9C2542 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (156, 37, 66) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (345°, 76%, 61%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (36, 81, 3°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is the color big dip o'ruby.
Big dip o'ruby 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.
This is supposed to be a metallic color. However, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
| Antique Ruby | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #841B2D |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (132, 27, 45) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (350°, 80%, 52%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (29, 71, 7°) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS [5] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
At right is displayed the color antique ruby.
The first recorded use of antique ruby as a color name in English was in 1926. [6]
The color antique ruby is a dark tone of ruby.
| Deep Ruby | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #843F5B |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (132, 63, 91) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (336°, 52%, 52%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (36, 43, 348°) |
| Source | BS 381 [7] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is deep tone of ruby that is called ruby in the British Standards 381 color list. This color is #542 on the 381 color list. The 381 color list is for colors used in identification, coding, and other special purposes. The British Standard color lists were first formulated in 1930 and reached their present form in 1955.
The various tones of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.
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.
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
Lilac is a light shade of pink representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colors shown below as pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet.
Burgundy is a purplish red.
Spring bud is the color that used to be called spring green before the X11 web color spring green was formulated in 1987 when the X11 colors were first promulgated. This color is now called spring bud to avoid confusion with the web color.
Jungle green is a color that is a rich tone of medium spring green.
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.
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma, 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.
Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.
Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.
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.
There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below.
Shades of black, or off-black colors, are colors that differ only slightly from pure black. These colors have a low lightness. From a photometric point of view, a color which differs slightly from black always has low relative luminance. Colors often considered "shades of black" include onyx, black olive, charcoal, and jet.
Iron oxide red is a generic name of a ferric oxide pigment of reddish colors. Multiple shades based on both anhydrous Fe
2O
3 and its hydrates were known to painters since prehistory. The pigments were originally obtained 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.
Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name.
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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