Maroon (color)

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Maroon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#800000
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(128, 0, 0)
Source		HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Maroon is a color related to dark red. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ca. 1791.

[edit] See also

• List of colors

[edit] Bibliography

See studies by C. Robinson (1969) and R. Price (1976, 1979).

[edit] References

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