Charcoal (color)

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Charcoal
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #464646
B (r, g, b) (70, 70, 70)
HSV (h, s, v) (-°, 0%, 30%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Charcoal is a color that is the dark gray color of burned wood. [1]

The first recorded use of charcoal as a color name in English was in 1606. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203; Color Sample: Page 117 Plate 47 Color Sample A2 -- Charcoal