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  2. Puce - Wikipedia

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    Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".. Puce became popular in the late 18th century in France. It appeared in clothing at the court of Louis XVI, and was said to be a favorite color of Marie Antoinette, though there are no portraits of her wearing it.

  3. Byzantium (color) - Wikipedia

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    Deep reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple. It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple ( hue rendering ), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors. The latter, often also referred to as "Tyrian red", is ...

  4. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. [2] It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that’s between approximately ...

  5. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The total number of genes that contribute to eye color is unknown, but there are a few likely candidates. A study in Rotterdam (2009) found that it was possible to predict eye color with more than 90% accuracy for brown and blue using just six SNPs. In humans, eye color is a highly sexually dimorphic trait.

  6. Heliotrope (color) - Wikipedia

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    CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (66, 102, 295°) Source. Maerz and Paul [1] ISCC–NBS descriptor. Vivid purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Heliotrope is a pink - purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower . The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.

  7. Azure (color) - Wikipedia

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    On the RGB and CMYK color wheel, Azure is defined as the colour halfway between blue and cyan. The colour halfway between blue and cyan on the RGB color wheel has a hex code of 0080FF. [1] ISCC–NBS descriptor. Vivid blue. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Azure pigment.

  8. Magenta - Wikipedia

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    On the RGB color wheel, magenta is the color between rose and violet, and halfway between red and blue . This color is called magenta in X11 and fuchsia in HTML. In the RGB color model, it is created by combining equal intensities of red and blue light. The two web colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same color.

  9. ISCC–NBS system - Wikipedia

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    ISCC–NBS system. The ISCC–NBS System of Color Designation is a system for naming colors based on a set of 13 basic color terms and a small set of adjective modifiers. It was first established in the 1930s by a joint effort of the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), made up of delegates from various American trade organizations, and the ...