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Colors known as kinjiki (禁色, "forbidden colors") were strictly reserved for the robes of the Imperial family and highest ranking court officials; for example, the color ōtan (orange) was used as the color for the robes of the Crown Prince and use by anyone else was prohibited.
Plum is a purple color with a brownish-gray tinge, like that shown on the right, or a reddish purple, which is a close representation of the average color of the plum fruit. As a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel, plum is an equal mix of the tertiary colors russet and slate. [2] [3] The first recorded use of plum as a color name in ...
The color raspberry glacé is displayed on the right. It is a medium shade of raspberry that is used in interior design. The first recorded use of raspberry glacé as a color name in English was in 1926. [5] The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. [6]
Beige is the French word for the color of natural wool (freshly shorn example at the Royal Winter Fair).. Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, [1] a grayish tan, [2] a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. [3]
Scarlet is a bright red color, [1] [2] sometimes with a slightly orange tinge. [3] In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-quarter of the way between red and orange, slightly less orange than vermilion.
Page described the meaning of the pink, purple, and blue colors: [1] [6] The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian). The blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi).
Cyan is the blue-green color that is between blue and green on a modern RGB color wheel. The modern RGB color wheel replaced the traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel because it is possible to display much brighter and more saturated colors using the primary and secondary colors of the RGB color wheel. In the terminology of color theory ...
Some rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep dark red color shown at right as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below. The first recorded use of carmine as a color name in English was in ...