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  2. Fawn (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789. [1]

  3. Sun tanning - Wikipedia

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    Sun tanning or tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found in indoor tanning beds.

  4. Melanin - Wikipedia

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    The first modern humans had darker skin as the indigenous people of Africa today. Following migration and settlement in Asia and Europe, the selective pressure dark UV-radiation protecting skin decreased where radiation from the sun was less intense. This resulted in the current range of human skin color.

  5. Lion (color) - Wikipedia

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    Lion is a color that is a representation of the average color of the fur of a lion. The first recorded use of lion as a color name in English was in 1551. See also

  6. Shades of orange - Wikipedia

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    A discussion of the difference between the color orange (the color halfway between red and yellow, shown above as color wheel orange) and the color orange peel (the actual color of the outer skin of an orange), may be found in Maerz and Paul. [11] Orange peel is the color halfway between orange (color wheel) and amber on the color wheel.

  7. Web colors - Wikipedia

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    A hex triplet is a six-digit (or eight-digit), three-byte (or four-byte) hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent colors.The bytes represent the red, green, and blue components of the color.

  8. Apricot (color) - Wikipedia

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    Displayed at right is the color mellow apricot. This is one of the colors on the British Standards 5252 color list. This color is #06E50 on the 5252 color list. The 5252 color list is for colors used in color coordination and in building construction. The British Standard color lists were first formulated in 1930 and reached their present form ...

  9. Discrimination based on skin tone - Wikipedia

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    According to the Pew Research Center, 62% of US Latinos say that having a darker skin color affects their ability to get ahead. [86] This study also showed that 59% of Latinos say that having a lighter skin color helps Hispanic people get ahead. [86] 57% say that discrimination based on skin color towards Latinos is a "very big problem" in the ...