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Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.
Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red. [2] [3] It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. [4] According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and romance.
Pink is a prominent secondary or tertiary color in many color space models. It is associated with softness, sweetness, love, and immaturity. [23] There is an urban legend that pink was a masculine color before the mid 20th century, [citation needed] based on evidence of conflicting traditions before about 1940.
Valentine’s Day colors typically slant red, white, and pink, but do you know their true meanings? Read all about the history behind the assortment of hues.
The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern. Since many advocacy groups have adopted ribbons as symbols of support or awareness, ribbons, particularly those of a single color, some colors may refer to more than one cause.
^ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called cerise in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color cerise is displayed on Page 31, Plate 4, Color Sample J6.
In some European nations and the United States, pink is associated with homosexuality and the pink flag is used as a symbol in support of civil rights for LGBT people; [69] it is commonly used to represent queer anarchism.
The general model of color psychology relies on six basic principles: Color can carry a specific meaning. Color meaning is either based in learned meaning or biologically innate meaning. The perception of a color causes evaluation automatically by the person perceiving.
W3C CSS Color Module. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Fuchsia ( / ˈfjuːʃə /, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, [1] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs .
Blush is a medium bright tone of pink. The first written use of blush as a color name in English was in 1590. [1]