List of colors

Color is an important part of the visual arts.

The following is a partial list of colors with associated articles. See also color names and the list of color topics.

Note that a large percentage of the color swatches below are taken from computer-domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4 (see also web colors). RGB values are given for each swatch, because such standards are defined in terms of the sRGB color space. It is not possible to accurately convert many of these swatches to CMYK values, because of the differing gamuts of the two spaces. But color management systems built in to operating systems and image editing software can attempt such conversions as accurately as possible.

The HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) values, also known as HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness), and Hex Triplets (for HTML Web colors) are also given in the following table. Colors which appear on the Web-safe color palette—which includes the sixteen named colors—are noted.^[1] (Those four named colors corresponding to the neutral grays can be rendered with any Hue value, which is effectively ignored.) The appearance of actual color swatches displayed below will vary depending on many parameters, such as the properties of the display device, color management settings, and the viewing surround conditions.

Note also that color naming is fuzzy and arbitrary, and varies among people and cultures; no single swatch is adequately representative of any particular color name. Additionally, computer displays have somewhat limited gamut, so many colorful pigments cannot be represented on screen at all, and computer simulation of the natural world is at best a rough approximation.

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Colors by shade

White

Template:Main White is the combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum. It is often considered an achromatic color. Template:Shades of white

Pink

Template:Main Pink is a tint of red created by adding white. Template:Shades of pink

Red

Template:Main Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625–750 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colors. Template:Shades of red

Orange

Template:Main Orange is the color in the visible spectrum between red and yellow with a wavelength around 585 - 620 nm. In the HSV color space it has a hue of around 30º. Template:Shades of orange

Brown

Template:Main Brown colors are dark shades of reds, oranges, and yellows. Template:Shades of brown

Yellow

Template:Main Yellow is the color of light with wavelengths predominately in the range of roughly 570-580 nm. In the HSV color space it has a hue of around 60º. It is considered one of the subtractive primary colors. Template:Shades of yellow

Gray

Template:Main Grays are the achromatic colors between black and white. Template:Shades of gray

Green

Template:Main Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colors. Template:Shades of green

Cyan

Template:Main Cyan is any of the colors in the blue-green range of the visible spectrum. It is considered one of the subtractive primary colors. Template:Shades of cyan

Blue

Template:Main Blue is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colors. Template:Shades of blue

Violet

Template:Main Violet is any of the colors, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 380-450 nm. It may also refer to some shades of blue and purple. Template:Shades of violet

Web Colors

Template:Main These are the colors used by computer graphic designers, for web page designing. These colors are displayed on the monitors of computers.

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Fictional colors

Fuligin, both a color and a textile having that color, associated with the Guild of Torturers in Gene Wolfe's book The Shadow of the Torturer. The color is described as "blacker than black" and also as "the color of soot."
Grue and Bleen, colors that change after an arbitrary but fixed time; coined by Charles Dodgson Template:Fact and used by philosopher Nelson Goodman to illustrate what he calls "the new riddle of induction."
Hooloovoo, a superintelligent shade of the color blue in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
Octarine, a color of magic in the Discworld fantasy novels, described as resembling a fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.
Squant, a fourth primary color publicized by experimental band Negativland in 1993.
Jale and Ulfire, new primary colors (shades of ultraviolet?) in A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay.
Infra-black, a blacker-than-black shade mentioned in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Template:Fact.
Blello/Blellow, actually green, made by Reese from Malcolm in the Middle mixing food coloring, not to be confused with Blello, a town in Italy.
The Color Out of Space, a vaguely-described alien hue, from the story of that name by H.P. Lovecraft.
The colors tang and burn are colors in the infrared range seen by the albino mutant Olivia Presteign (whose vision only functions in the infrared) in the 1956 science fiction novel The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. ^[2]

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References

Frery, A. C.; Melo, C. A. S. & Fernandes, R. C. Web-Based Interactive Dynamics for Color Models Learning. Color Research and Application, 2000, 25, 435-441. Error: Bad DOI specified!

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