List of colors

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

Note that CMYK values are nominal, and that there is no fixed conversion from RGB to CMYK. Do not use these values where high quality color matching in printing is required.

Gamma Correction

A controversial view is that the actual color values below are correct, but the actual colors displayed are incorrect due to lack of gamma correction. According to this argument, the only colors that display properly on an RGB system without gamma correction are full white, full black, full red, full green, full blue, full magenta (full red + full blue), full yellow (full red + full green), and full cyan (full green + full blue). All other colors, especially dark colors, are shown incorrectly[link]. This is because only the lowest and highest intensities (0% and 100%) translate exactly from what you wish to display to what is actually displayed. Therefore, without gamma correction, only fully-on or fully-off red, green, and blue values are translated "properly".

50% gray, it is argued, (half-way between white and black) should be 50% as bright as white, but without gamma correction, it is only 18% the brightness of white on a gamma 2.5 display (0.5^2.5 = ~0.1768), which is the standard gamma value for most CRTs and LCD displays. (LCDs actually emulated a gamma 2.5, to correlate with more popular CRT displays, as they do not natively have that value.) However, if the purpose of the colors is to show how these color values look on displays rather than in a gamma corrected world, this argument does not apply.

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A

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Alice Blue	#F0F8FF	240	248	245	4	1	0	0	208	6	100
Alizarin Crimson	#E32636	227	38	54	1	92	82	0	355	83	89
Amber	#FFBF00	255	191	0	0	25	100	0	45	100	100
Amethyst	#9966CC	153	102	204	25	50	0	20	270	50	80
Asparagus	#7BA05B	123	160	91	23	0	43	37	92	43	63
Aqua	#00FFFF	0	255	255	100	0	0	0	180	100	100
Aquamarine	#7FFFD4	127	255	212	50	0	17	0	160	50	100
Azure	#007FFF	0	127	255	100	50	0	0	210	100	100

B

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Beige	#F5F5DC	245	245	220	0	0	10	4	60	10	96
Bistre	#3D2B1F	61	43	31	0	30	49	76	24	49	24
Black	#000000	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0
Blue	#0000FF	0	0	255	100	100	0	0	240	100	100
Bondi Blue	#0095B6	0	149	182	100	18	0	29	191	100	71
Brass	#B5A642	181	166	66					37	119	124
Bright green	#66FF00	102	255	0	60	0	100	0	96	100	100
Bright turquoise	#08E8DE	8	232	222	97	0	4	9	177	97	91
Bright violet	#CD00CD	205	0	205	36	88	0	0	300	100	80
Bronze	#CD7F32	205	127	50	12	58	88	6	21	155	128
Brown	#964B00	150	75	0	0	50	100	41	30	100	59
Buff	#F0DC82	240	220	130	0	8	46	6	49	46	94
Burgundy	#900020	128	0	32	0	97	100	50	230	240	60
Burnt Orange	#CC5500	204	85	0	0	58	100	20	25	100	80
Burnt Sienna	#E97451	233	116	81	0	50	65	9	14	65	91
Burnt umber	#8A3324	138	51	36	0	63	74	46	9	74	54

C

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Camouflage green	#78866B	120	134	107	55	35	62	10	91	20	53
Cardinal	#C41E3A	196	30	58	0	85	70	23	350	85	77
Carmine	#960018	150	0	24	0	100	84	41	350	100	59
Carrot	#ED9121	237	145	33	4	50	100	0	33	86	93
Celadon	#ACE1AF	172	225	175	21	0	19	12	123	24	88
Cerise	#DE3163	222	49	99	0	78	55	13	343	78	87
Cerulean	#007BA7	0	123	167	100	26	0	35	196	100	65
Cerulean blue	#2A52BE	42	82	190	78	57	0	25	224	78	75
Chartreuse	#7FFF00	127	255	0	50	0	100	0	90	100	100
Chestnut	#CD5C5C	205	92	92	0	55	55	20	0	55	80
Chocolate	#D2691E*	210	105	30	0	50	86	18	25	86	82
Cinnamon	#7B3F00	123	63	0	16	60	82	51	31	100	48
Cobalt	#0047AB	0	71	171	100	58	0	33	215	100	67
Copper	#B87333	184	115	51	0	38	72	28	29	72	72
Coral	#FF7F50	255	127	80	0	50	69	0	16	69	100
Corn	#FBEC5D	251	236	93	4	1	77	0	54	63	98
Cornflower blue	#6495ED	100	149	237	58	37	0	7	219	58	93
Cream	#FFFDD0	255	253	208	0	1	18	0	57	18	100
Crimson	#DC143C	220	20	60	0	91	73	14	348	91	86
Cyan	#00FFFF	0	255	255	100	0	0	0	180	100	100

D

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Dark blue	#0000C8	0	0	139	1	1	0	0	240	100	55
Dark brown	#654321	101	67	33	0	34	67	60	30	67	40
Dark cerulean	#08457E	8	69	126	94	45	0	51	209	94	49
Dark chestnut	#986960	152	105	96	0	31	37	40	10	37	60
Dark coral	#CD5B45	205	91	69	15	77	78	3	10	66	80
Dark goldenrod	#B8860B	184	134	11	0	27	94	28	43	94	72
Dark green	#013220*	1	50	32	98	0	36	80	158	98	20
Dark Indigo	#310062	49	0	98	50	100	0	62	270	100	38
Dark Khaki	#BDB76B	189	183	107	0	3	43	26	56	43	74
Dark Olive	#556832*	85	104	50	65	40	95	27	81	52	41
Dark pastel green	#03C03C	3	192	60	76	0	100	0	138	98	75
Dark Peach	#FFDAB9	255	218	185	0	15	27	0	28	27	100
Dark pink	#E75480	231	84	128	4	82	26	0	342	64	91
Dark salmon	#E9967A	233	150	122	0	36	48	9	15	48	91
Dark Scarlet	#560319	86	3	25	0	97	71	66	344	97	34
Dark slate gray	#2F4F4F	47	79	79	41	0	0	69	180	41	31
Dark spring green	#177245	23	114	69	87	31	88	20	150	80	45
Dark tan	#918151	145	129	81	41	41	77	12	45	44	57
Dark tangerine	#FFA812	255	168	18	0	39	99	0	38	93	100
Dark Tea Green	#BADBAD	186	219	173	28	1	40	0	103	21	86
Dark Terra cotta	#CC4E5C	204	78	92	0	49	44	20	354	55	55
Dark turquoise	#116062	17	96	98	89	45	55	25	181	83	38
Dark violet	#423189	66	49	137	92	98	8	1	252	64	54
Denim	#1560BD	21	96	189	89	49	0	26	213	89	74
Dodger blue	#1E90FF	30	144	255	88	44	0	0	210	88	100

E

Name	Sample	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Emerald		#50C878	80	200	120	60	0	40	22	140	60	78
Eggplant		#990066	153	0	102	0	100	33	40	320	100	60

F

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Fern green	#4F7942	79	121	66	71	32	90	18	106	45	47
Flax	#EEDC82	238	220	130	7	8	60	0	50	45	93
Fuchsia	#F400A1	244	0	161	0	100	34	4	320	100	96

G

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Gamboge	#E49B0F	228	155	15	5	48	97	1	26	210	114
Gold	#FFD700	255	215	0	0	16	100	0	51	100	100
Goldenrod	#DAA520	218	165	32	0	24	85	15	43	85	85
Gray	#808080	128	128	128	0	0	0	50	0	0	50
Gray-asparagus	#465945	70	89	69	21	0	22	65	117	22	35
Gray-Tea Green	#CADABA	202	218	186	7	0	15	15	90	15	85
Green	#00FF00	0	255	0	100	0	100	0	120	100	100
Green-yellow	#ADFF2F	173	255	47	32	0	82	0	84	82	100

H

Name	Sample	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Heliotrope		#DF73FF	223	115	255	13	55	0	0	286	55	100
Hot pink		#FC0FC0	252	15	192	0	94	24	1	315	94	99

I

Name	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Indigo	#4B0082	75	0	130	42	100	0	49	275	100	51
International Klein Blue	#002FA7	0	47	167	98	84	0	0	223	100	65
International orange	#FF4F00	255	79	0	0	69	100	0	19	100	100

J

Name	Sample	Hex triplet	RGB			CMYK				HSV
Jade		#00A86B	0	168	107	100	0	36	34	158	100	66

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* More than one hex triplet is possible.

External links

[International Color Consortium]
[colr.org] - more than 20,000 named colors
[Color List] (Xona.com) - 2,000+ color list; demonstrates vast improvements gamma correction makes
[The Colour of Words] - Article on Color Names
[Article on color names and swatches]
[Colorcharts.org] many commercial paint and color systems chip sets.
[Color Schemer-Interactive site]
[ColourLovers : Useful for designers]
[Coloria.net: Color names]
[The mother of all HTML color charts] — contains many colors, including their RGB, CMYK, and HLS/HSL values, names, and sources (other link references at top, color pages at bottom).
[Color-Guide.com] Japanese colors with English meanings
[Pourpre.com] in French with some English pages: chromograph: color manipulation, sequences and conversions; standard and imaginary color dictionary; chroma filter; box of colors
[The Society For Sports Uniforms - Color Research (formerly Color Guides)]

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