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  2. Plum (color) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. CIE 1931 color space - Wikipedia

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    A comparison between a typical normalized M cone's spectral sensitivity and the CIE 1931 luminosity function for a standard observer in photopic vision.. In the CIE 1931 model, Y is the luminance, Z is quasi-equal to blue (of CIE RGB), and X is a mix of the three CIE RGB curves chosen to be nonnegative (see § Definition of the CIE XYZ color space).

  4. Lilac (color) - Wikipedia

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    Lilac is a light shade of pink representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colors shown below as pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet. The first recorded use of the term lilac as an English color name was in ...

  5. Visible spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Young was the first to measure the wavelengths of different colors of light, in 1802. [16] The connection between the visible spectrum and color vision was explored by Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz in the early 19th century. Their theory of color vision correctly proposed that the eye uses three distinct receptors to perceive color.

  6. Traditional colors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Name Romanized English translation RGB Hex triplet Name Romanized English translation RGB Hex triplet; 鴇羽色: Tokiha-iro: Ibis wing color : 245,143,132 #F58F84 桜鼠

  7. ROYGBIV - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton's color sequence (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) is kept alive today by several popular mnemonics.One is simply the nonsense word roygbiv, which is an acronym for the seven colors. [5]

  8. List of colors: A–F - Wikipedia

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    Colors are an important part of visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines. The following is a list of colors. A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch because such standards are defined in terms of the sRGB ...

  9. Burgundy (color) - Wikipedia

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    Burgundy is a purplish red. [4] [5]European Union passports are usually burgundy in color. The color burgundy takes its name from the Burgundy wine in France.When referring to the color, "burgundy" is not usually capitalized.