PINK In 1856 18-year old English PUCE HOT PINK AMARANTH chemist William Perkin Puce means flea in French. The colour of First mentioned in Vogue in 1958, an An imaginary flower that never fades. accidentally discovered the colour a blood-engorged flea. intense, vivid pink. Colour of foliage of Amarantus plants. mauve, the first synthetic dye. The colour of flowers from plants of C:8 M:56 Y:22.5 K:0 C:0 M:73 Y:0 K:0 C:0 M:94 Y:59 K:0 Until Perkin, dyes and artists’ the Dianthus genus. The word means jagged as in pinking shears. In Dutch colours were based on natural the word pinck means small. pigments – minerals, plants, squid C:0 M:37.5 Y:0 K:0 OLD ROSE SHOCKING PINK RASPBERRY ink, even crushed insects. Dark red cultivated rose. From the bright pink packaging of the Colour of fruit from the genus Rubus. After Perkin, words for colour Colourful C:15 M:67 Y:39.5 K:0.5 perfume Shocking designed by Leonor Prince song Raspberry Beret was a hit. names got a little bit weird. Fini for the Surrealist fashion designer C:12 M:100 Y:66 K:10 BABY PINK Elsa Schiaparelli. Magenta was named after a Very pale pink. The colour used for C:0 M:94 Y:24 K:1 famous battle. dressing baby girls. CORDOVAN The traditional words for colours C:0 M:22 Y:0 K:0 The colour of cordovan leather. Named CERISE tell their history. They are worth after Cordoba, Spain, where the leather Colour of the cherry fruit. Cerise means understanding and preserving. was first produced by Visigoths in the MAGENTA cherry in French. Colours are grouped according to seventh century. When the synthetic dye was discovered C:6 M:79 Y:20 K:0 ROSE C:43 M:82 Y:42 K:0 in 1859, it was first named fuchsia 11 base colour names. WORDS Plants of the Rosa genus with fragrant after botanist Leonhard Fuchs. It was CMYK values are provided as a flowers often pink in colour. People who renamed after the Battle of Magenta, a guide only. Colour is subjective. view the world through rose-colour town in Italy. The battle was part of the glasses are overly optimistic. Second Italian War of Independence. CHERRY BLOSSOM CARNATION The M in CMYK. Colour of the cherry flower. Cherry IMAGE: “Indian pigments” by Dan Brady. by Anne Jones C:0 M:50 Y:0 K:0 The flower. Carnation means fleshy. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. C:0 M:100 Y:0 K:0 blossom is celebrated in Japan. C:0 M:45 Y:0 K:0 C:0 M:36 Y:10 K:0 RED BLUE FIRE ENGINE RED TOMATO CARMINE SKY BLUE AQUAMARINE PERIWINKLE The colour of fire engines. Probably The colour of tomatoes. From the Pigment from cochineal, dried Coccus Sky is from Old Norse meaning cloud. A blue-green gemstone. The word is In Italian, the flower of death as those chosen for visibility. Bright yellow and Mexican word tomatl. cacti insects on Mexican cactus. C:55.5 M:0 Y:6 K:0 from Latin meaning sea water. awaiting execution wore periwinkle. From Sanskrit rudhira meaning blood. lime green are actually more visible. C:0 M:80 Y:70 K:0 C:20.5 M:100 Y:100 K:14 The Middle English word blew meant C:81 M:0 Y:25 K:0 C:20 M:20 Y:0 K:0 One of the 7 colours of the rainbow. C:0 M:100 Y:100 K:0 yellowish-grey. Said to be the most C:0 M:96 Y:90 K:0 popular colour, blue is also the colour of sadness. One of the 7 colours of the AZURE rainbow. TERRACOTTA BURGUNDY The clear blue of the sky on a clear day. ULTRAMARINE ROYAL BLUE The colour of red wine from the C:88 M:76 Y:0 K:0 SCARLET Colour of building materials made by The word is derived from the semi- Ultramarine means beyond the sea. The The rich blue colour of a dress made for Burgundy region of France. RUBY A bright red. Persian for rich cloth. firing clay. Latin meaning baked earth. precious stone lapis lazuli. pigment was made from lapis lazuli. English Queen Charlotte (1744-1818). C:25 M:100 Y:97 K:25 Precious stone. Latin for red. C:0 M:90 Y:90 K:0 C:0 M:69 Y:64 K:5 C:84.5 M:46.5 Y:0 K:0 C:100 M:90 Y:6 K:6.5 C:81 M:60.5 Y:0 K:0 C:0 M:81 Y:73 K:22 CYAN From Greek kyanos meaning intense blue. Cyan is C in CMYK. One of the CINNABAR CHILLI MAROON CERULEAN TEAL NAVY BLUE The word is French for chestnut. The four colours used to produce full colour CARDINAL Red crystalline mineral. The word comes Colour of chilli fruit coincidentally used From Latin meaning dark blue probably A type of duck with green-blue feathers The colour of British Navy uniforms. official colour of Queensland. printing. Colour of a cardinal’s cassock. from the Persian word zinjifrah. in the Chilean flag. From the Nahuatl derived from the word for heaven. on the wing. Navy means ship. language. C:25 M:100 Y:100 K:26 C:100 M:0 Y:0 K:0 C:25 M:100 Y:79 K:20 C:0 M:74 Y:88 K:9 C:100 M:38 Y:20 K:1 C:100 M:26 Y:33 K:6.5 C:100 M:98 Y:12.5 K:15 C:5 M:91 Y:97 K:1 ELECTRIC BLUE CRIMSON VERMILION SOLFERINO TURQUOISE COBALT BLUE Red crystalline mineral used to make TITIAN Synthetic dye invented in 1859 and Colour of a spark of electricity. CORNFLOWER BLUE Pigment from scale insect Kermes A precious stone found in Turkey, The colour of cornflower Centaurea Cobalt means goblin of the mines. From sealing wax. Also called China Red, the After the Venetian painter, Titian, who named after a battle in Solferino, Italy. C:75 M:0 Y:5 K:0 vermilio. From Sanskrit meaning turquoise means Turkish in French. cyanus, a perennial garden plant. the Herz mines in Germany. traditional red in Chinese art. painted people with red hair. C:31 M:100 Y:47.5 K:42 produced by a worm. C:95 M:0 Y:22 K:0 C:65 M:35 Y:0 K:0 C:100 M:79.5 Y:0.5 K:0.5 C:0 M:90 Y:70 K:0 C:0 M:88 Y:83 K:0 C:25 M:92 Y:100 K:20 PURPLE GREEN MAUVE AMETHYST PLUM CELADON CHARTREUSE AVOCADO Derived from the French word for Amethyst means not intoxicated. The colour of plums, Prunus domestica, Type of green pottery from China. The colour of liqueur made by monks at From Spanish meaning advocate. mallow flower, mauve was the first The purple quartz crystal was said to one of the first fruits domesticated by Possibly named after a fictional the monastery of La Grande-Chartreuse. C:40 M:0 Y:100 K:30 The Phoenicians produced red-purple synthetic dye produced in 1856 prevent drunkenness. humans. From Old English growen meaning to character created by French novelist C:23 M:0 Y:68 K:0 dye from the shellfish porphyra. This by William Perkin. The colour was C:35 M:70 Y:0 K:0 C:30 M: 100 Y:0 K: 35 grow. Many languages have only one Honoré d’Urfé (1568-1625). word morphed into the word purple. popularised by Queen Victoria. word for both blue and green. One of C:41 M:0 Y:42 K:0 Colour of royalty. C:17 M:32 Y:0 K:0 the 7 colours of the rainbow. OLIVE C:39 M:81 Y:0 K:0 C:100 M:18.5 Y:100 K:11 LIME The colour of the unripe fruit of the olive FUCHSIA TYRIAN PURPLE The colour of limes. tree Olea europaea. Colour of the fuchsia flower named after The rich red purple produced by the JADE C:60 M:0 Y:100 K:0 C:51 M:36 Y:100 K:12.5 HELIOTROPE 16th century German botanist Leonhard Phoenicians from the shellfish Murex A green semi-precious stone, often LAVENDER Meaning turns to the sun, the heliotrope Fuchs. Fuchsia was one of the early brandaris. The process was very smelly TEA GREEN carved. The word is from Spanish The colour of the lavender flower is a purple flower which follows the sun. synthetic dyes. but the resulting dye was enormously The colour of brewed green tea Camillia meaning colic or pain in the side. valuable. Tyre was a Phoenician city. Lavandula vera. The word lavender is C:50 M:65 Y:0 K:0 C:22 M:77 Y:0 K:0 sinensis. Tea was stolen from China by C:60 M:0 Y:70 K:0 ASPARAGUS BOTTLE GREEN C:47 M:88 Y:20 K:36 said to be derived from the Latin word botanist Robert Fortune. The colour of the vegetable once known Dark green bottle glass. Bottle means for washing. C:20 M:0 Y:30 K:0 as Sparrow Grass. vessel. C:16 M:16 Y:0 K:2 C:64.5 M:17 Y:86.5 K:2 C:90 M:40 Y:80 K:20 VIOLET MULBERRY EMERALD The colour of flowers from the genus Colour of mulberries.