List of colors
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See also: List of colors (compact), List of color palettes, and Index of color-related articles
Color is an important part of the visual arts, fashion, interior design and many other fields and
disciplines.
The following is a comprehensive list of colors that are included in the Wikipedia articles about
color. A large portion of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming
schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch because such standards
are defined in terms of the sRGBcolor space. It is not possible to accurately convert many of
these swatches to CMYK values because of the differing gamuts of the two spaces, but the color
management systems built into operating systems and image editing software attempt such
conversions as accurately as possible.
The HSV (hue, saturation, value) color space values, also known as HSB (hue, saturation,
brightness), and the hex triplets (for HTML web colors) are also given in the following table.
Colors that appear on the web-safe color palette — which includes the sixteen named colors —
are noted.
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(Those four named colors corresponding to the neutral grays can be rendered with
any hue value, which is effectively ignored — i.e., left blank.)
The appearance of the actual color swatches displayed below will look different on your
computer depending on many parameters, such as the properties of your display device, your
color management settings and the viewing surround conditions, most notably the color spectrum
of the illumination source.
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Also, Color naming is ambiguous and arbitrary, and varies among
people and cultures, with no single swatch adequately representing any particular color name.
Computer displays have a somewhat limited gamut, so many colorfulpigments cannot be
represented on a screen at all and computer simulation of the natural world is, at best, a rough
approximation.
Contents:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
White - Pink - Red - Orange - Brown - Yellow - Gray - Green - Cyan - Blue - Violet
Web colors - Fictional colors - See also - Footnotes - References
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Color names
Name
Hex
triplet
Red
Green
Blue
Hue
Satur
Light
Satur
Value
W3C
name
Air Force blue #5D8AA8 36% 54% 66% 204° 30% 51% 45% 66%
Alice blue #F0F8FF 94% 97% 100% 208° 100% 97% 6% 100%
[edit] Colors by shade
[edit] White
Main articles: White and Variations of white
White is a balanced combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum, or of a pair of
complementary colors, or of three or more colors, such as additive primarycolors. It is a neutral
or achromatic (without color) color, like black and gray.
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Shades of white
Anti-flash
white
Antique
white Beige Blond Cornsilk
Cosmic
latte Cream Eggshell
Floral
white
Ghost
white
Honeydew Isabelline Ivory
Lavender
blush
Lemon
chiffon Linen Magnolia
Mint
cream Munsell
Navajo
white
Old lace
Papaya
whip Pearl Seashell Snow
Splashed
white Vanilla White
White
smoke
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Pink
Main article: Pink
Pink is a tint of red, created by adding some white.
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Shades of pink
Amaranth
Amaranth
pink
Brink
pink
Carnation
pink Cerise
Coral
pink
Deep
carmine
Deep
pink Fandango
French
rose
Fuchsia
Hollywood
cerise
Hot
magenta Hot pink
Lavender
pink Magenta
Persian
Rose Pink Puce Rose
Rose
pink
Salmon
pink
Shocking
pink
Thulian
pink
Ultra
pink
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Red
Main articles: Red and Variations of red
Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light, consisting predominantly of the longest
wavelengths discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625–750 nm. It is
considered one of the additiveprimary colors.
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Shades of red
Amaranth Auburn Burgundy Cardinal Carmine Cerise Chestnut Crimson Dark red
Electric
crimson
Fire brick Flame Folly Fuchsia Lust Magenta Pink Raspberry Red
Red-
violet
Redwood Rose Rosewood Rust Scarlet
Terra
cotta
Tuscan
red Vermilion Wine
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Orange
Main article: Orange (colour)
Orange is the color in the visible spectrum between red and yellow with a wavelength around
585 – 620 nm. In the HSV color space, it has a hue of around 30º.
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Shades of orange
Amber Apricot
Atomic
tangerin
e
Bitterswee
t Brown
Burnt
orange
Carrot
orange
Champagn
e Coral
Dark
salmo
n
Deep
carrot
orange
ECE/SA
E Amber Flame Gamboge Gold
Gold
(metallic
)
Internationa
l orange Lion
Mahogan
y
Old
gold
Orange
Orange
(web)
Orange-
red
Orange
peel
Papaya
whip Peach
Peach-
orange
Peach-
yellow
Persian
orange
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Brown
Main article: Brown
Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK
color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the
RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should
produce black, but produce brown because most commercially-available blue pigments tend to
be comparatively weaker; the stronger red and yellow colors prevail, thus creating the following
tones.
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Shades of brown
Auburn Beaver Beige Bistre Bole Bronze Brown Buff Burgundy
Burnt
sienna
Mahogany Maroon Ochre
Raw
umber Redwood Rufous Russet Rust Sand
Sandy
brown
Seal
brown Sepia Sienna Sinopia Tan Taupe Tawny Umber Wenge Wheat
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Yellow
Main article: Yellow
Yellow is the color of light with wavelengths predominately in the range of roughly 570–
580 nm. In the HSV color space, it has a hue of around 60º. It is considered one of the
subtractiveprimary colors.
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Shades of yellow
Amber Apricot Beige Buff Cream
Dark
goldenrod Ecru Gold
Gold
(metallic) Goldenrod
Navajo
white Olive
Papaya
whip Saffron
School
bus
yellow
Selective
yellow
Stil de
grain
yellow Sunglow Vanilla Yellow
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Gray
Main article: Gray
Achromatic grays are colors between black and white with no hue. Chromatic grays are
achromatic grays mixed with warm hues such as orange (warm grays) or cool hues such as azure
(cool grays). This graycolor template includes both achromatic and chromatic grays.
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Shades of gray
Gray Ash gray
Battleship
gray Black
Cadet
gray Charcoal Cool gray
Davy's
gray
Payne's
gray Silver
Slate
gray Taupe
Purple
taupe
Medium
taupe
Taupe
gray
Rose
quartz White
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Green
Main articles: Green and Variations of green
Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by
energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary
colors.
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Shades of green
Apple
green Asparagus
Bright
green Chartreuse
Dark
olive
green
Dark
spring
green
Dartmouth
green
Electric
green
Fern
green
Forest
green
Green
Green-
yellow Harlequin Honeydew
Hunter
green
India
green
Islamic
green
Jungle
green
Lawn
green Lime
Lime
green Mantis Mint
Mint
cream
Office
green Olive Olive drab
Pakistan
green
Paris
Green
Persian
green
Phthalo
green
Pigment
green
Pine
green Pistachio
Sea
green
Shamrock
green
Spring
bud
Spring
green Teal
Yellow-
green
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Cyan
Main article: Cyan
Cyan is any of the colors in the blue-green range of the visible spectrum, i.e., between
approximately 520 and 420 nm. It is considered one of the subtractiveprimary colors.
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Shades of cyan
Alice
blue Aqua Aquamarine Celeste Cerulean Cyan
Electric
blue
Jungle
green
Magic
mint Mint
Persian
green
Pine
green
Robin egg
blue
Sea
green Skobeloff Teal Turquoise
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Blue
Main articles: Blue and Variations of blue
Blue is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by
energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary
colors.
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Shades of blue
Air Force
blue
Alice
blue Azure
Baby
blue
Bleu de
France Blue Bondi blue
Brandei
s blue
Cambridg
e Blue
Carolina
blue
Celeste Cerulean
Cobal
t blue
Columbi
a blue
Cornflowe
r blue Cyan Dark blue
Deep
sky blue
Dodger
blue
Duke
blue
Egyptian
blue
Electric
blue
Eton
blue
Federal
blue Glaucous
Electric
indigo
Internationa
l Klein Blue Iris Light blue
Majorell
e Blue
Maya blue
Midnigh
t blue
Navy
blue
Non-
photo
blue
Palatinate
blue
Periwinkl
e Persian blue
Phthalo
blue
Powder
blue
Prussian
blue
Royal blue Sapphire
Sky
blue
Steel
blue Teal
Tiffany
Blue True Blue
Tufts
Blue Turquoise
UCLA
Blue
Ultramarin
e
Yale
Blue
The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Violet
Main articles: Violet (color) and Purple
Violet is any of the colors the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum
dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 380–450 nm. Tones of violet tending towards
the blue are called indigo. Purple colors are colors that are various blends of violet light or blue
light and red light.
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The samples shown above are only indicative.
[edit] Web colors
Main article: Web colors
These are the colors used by computer graphic designers for web page designing. These colors
are displayed on the monitors of computers.
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Web colors
black gray silver white maroon red purple fuchsia green lime olive yellow navy blue teal aqua
[edit] Fictional colors
Garrow and Infra-White –colors invented in the Nebulous episode "Madness is a
Strange Co lour". The first color both colors affect the human mind in odd ways, either
destroying or creating sanity. Professor Nebulous claims that he discovered Infra-White
by looking underneath and behind the visible spectrum.
Fuligin – both a color and a textile having that color, associated with the Guild of
Torturers in Gene Wolfe's book, The Shadow of the Torturer. The color is defined as "the
color that is darker than black" and also as "the color of soot."
Grue and bleen – colors that change after an arbitrary, but fixed time; coined by Charles
Dodgson
[citation needed]
and used by philosopher Nelson Goodman to illustrate what he calls
"the new riddle of induction."
Hooloovoo – a superintelligent shade of the color blue in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
Octarine – the color of magic in the Disc world fantasy novels, described as resembling
a fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.
Squant – a fourth primary color publicized by the experimental band Negativland in
1993.
Jale and Ulfire – new primary colors (shades of ultraviolet?) in A Voyage to Arcturus by
David Lindsay.
The Colour Out of Space – a vaguely-described alien hue, from the story of that name
by H. P. Lovecraft.
The colorstang and burn are colors in the infrared range seen by the albinomutant Olivia
Presteign (whose vision only functions in the infrared) in the 1956 science fiction novel
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
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Htun is a color similar to black only seen by gnomes in the book Fairest by Gail Carson
Levine.
Sangoire is a color of red 'so dark and saturated it [is] almost black', seen in the
Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey.
Blellow is the name given to the color created by Reece of "Malcolm in the Middle"
when he mixed blue and yellow together. Otherwise known as green.
Silentropae is the name given to the color of the cloud of debris following earth's
destruction by asteroid 'Apophis' in the short story Silentropae by author Book Sim.
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Celestewhite is a color invented by Carlos Argentino for his lengthy topographical poem
intended to describe the entire world, in Jorge Luis Borges'The Aleph. It "actually
suggests the sky, an element of utmost importance in the landscape of the Down Under."