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The color vanilla is a rich tint of off-white as well as a medium pale tint of yellow. The first recorded use of vanilla as a color name in English was in 1925. [ 1 ]
The Spanish Republican Flag has three colours: red, yellow, and dark purple. [10] The third colour, dark purple (Spanish: morado oscuro), represents Castile and León by recalling the Pendón Morado, the ancient armorial banner of Castile. The colours of red and yellow symbolise the territories of the former Crown of Aragon. [11]
[9]: 17–22 For example, a purple spotlight on a dark background could be matched with coincident blue and red spotlights that are both dimmer than the purple spotlight. If the intensity of the purple spotlight was doubled it could be matched by doubling the intensities of both the red and blue spotlights that matched the original purple.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
Small 18th-century vase with sang de boeuf glaze. Oxblood or ox-blood is a dark shade of red.It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues.The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning (but also "ox blood") is used in various contexts in English, [3] but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in ...
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.
Mauve (/ ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ, mohv; [2] / ˈ m ɔː v / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color [3] [4] named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). 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.
Iris is an ambiguous color term, usually referring to shades ranging from blue-violet to violet.. However, in certain applications, it has been applied to an even wider array of colors, including pale blue, mauve, pink, and even yellow (the color of the inner part of the iris flower).