Variations of pink

Variations of pink
Some tints and shades of pink

This article is about notable tints and shades of the color pink. These various colors are shown below.

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Computer web color pinks

Pink

Pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FFC0CB
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 192, 203)
HSV (h, s, v) (350°, 100%, 88%)
Source X11 color names[1]
HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed web color pink.

This color is identical to the color Tamarisk, the color of the flowers of the Tamarisk plant.

Light pink

Light pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FFB6C1
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 182, 193)
HSV (h, s, v) (351°, 100%, 86%)
Source X11 color names[1]
HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color light pink. The name of the web color is written as "lightpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display.

Although this color is called "light pink", as can be ascertained by inspecting its hex code, it is actually a slightly deeper, not a lighter, tint of pink than the color pink itself. A more accurate name for it in terms of traditional color nomenclature would therefore be medium pink.

Hot pink

Hot pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF69B4
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 105, 180)
HSV (h, s, v) (330°, 59%, 100%)
Source X11 color names[1]
HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color hot pink. The name of the web color is written as "hotpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display.

Deep pink

Deep pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF1493
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 20, 147)
HSV (h, s, v) (328°, 92%, 100%)
Source X11 color names[1]
HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color deep pink.[3] The name of the web color is written as "deeppink" (no space) in HTML for computer display.

Other notable pink colors

Pink lace

Pink lace

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FFDDF4
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 221, 244)
HSV (h, s, v) (3°, 41%, 84[4]%)
Source Xona.com Color List
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color pink lace.

The color name pink lace for this pale tone of rose pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

This color is suggestive of the color of some women's lingerie.


Pale pink

Pale pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #F9CCCA
RGBB (r, g, b) (249, 204, 202)
HSV (h, s, v) (3°, 19%, 98[5]%)
Source ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color pale pink, a light, desaturated shade of pink.

Baby pink

Baby pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #F4C2C2
RGBB (r, g, b) (244, 194, 194)
HSV (h, s, v) (30°, 21%, 96[6]%)
Source ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color baby pink, a light shade of pink.

The first recorded use of baby pink as a color name in English was in 1928.[7]

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Baby Pink (color sample #28)

In Western culture, baby pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys. (See the section Pink in gender in the main article on pink.) This is a recent tradition, however, and until the 1940s the convention was exactly the opposite: pink was used for boys while girls were dressed in blue.[8][9][10]

Cameo pink

Cameo pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #EFBBCC
RGBB (r, g, b) (239, 187, 204)
HSV (h, s, v) (340°, 22%, 94[11]%)
Source ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color cameo pink, a medium light tone of rose pink.

The first recorded use of cameo pink as a color name in English was in 1912.[12]

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Cameo Pink (color sample #249)

Cherry blossom pink

At right is displayed the color cherry blossom pink.

The first recorded use of cherry blossom pink as a color name in English was in 1867.[13]

Cherry blossom pink is an important color in Japanese culture. In the spring, the Japanese people gather to watch the cherry blossoms bloom during the Hanami festival. This custom has spread to the United States with the institution of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C..

Cherry blossom pink colored shirts are often worn to work on the 15th of September (a day a few days before the beginning of spring in the Southern Hemisphere) to celebrate "Cherry Blossom Day" in Brisbane, Australia.


Carnation pink

Carnation Pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FFA6C9
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 166, 201)
HSV (h, s, v) (330°, 100%, 80%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color carnation pink. Carnation pink is a color that resembles the flower color of a carnation plant. It is a shade of pink. The color as displayed here was formulated by Crayola in 1949, and appears in Crayola's boxes of 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 and 96 colors.

The first recorded use of carnation as a color name in English was in 1535.[14]

Tickle me pink

Tickle me pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FC89AC
RGBB (r, g, b) (252, 137, 172)
HSV (h, s, v) (342°, 46%, 99%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color tickle me pink is displayed at right.

The color tickle me pink was formulated by Crayola in 1993.

Charm pink

Charm pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #E68FAC
RGBB (r, g, b) (230, 143, 172)
HSV (h, s, v) (340°, 38%, 90[15]%)
Source Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color charm pink is displayed at right.

The color name charm pink first came into use in 1948.

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[16]

"Charm pink" is a medium roseish tone of pink that is used in interior design.


Tango pink

Tango pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #E4717A
RGBB (r, g, b) (228, 113, 122)
HSV (h, s, v) (355°, 50%, 89[17]%)
Source Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color tango pink is displayed at right.

Another name for this color is tango.

The first recorded use of tango pink as a color name in English was in 1925.[18]

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[19]

"Tango pink" is a reddish-orange tone of pink that is used in interior design.


Congo pink

Congo pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #F88379
RGBB (r, g, b) (248, 131, 121)
HSV (h, s, v) (5°, 51%, 97[20]%)
Source ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color Congo pink is displayed at right.

The first recorded use of Congo pink as a color name in English was in 1912.[21]

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Congo Pink (color sample #26)

"Congo pink" is an orangeish tone of pink.

Pastel pink

Pastel pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #DEA5A4
RGBB (r, g, b) (222, 165, 164)
HSV (h, s, v) (1°, 26%, 87[22]%)
Source ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color pastel pink is displayed at right.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Pastel Pink (color sample #5)

New York pink

New York pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #D7837F
RGBB (r, g, b) (215, 131, 127)
HSV (h, s, v) (3°, 41%, 84[23]%)
Source Xona.com Color List
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color New York pink.

The color name New York pink for this dark tone of pink has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.


Mountbatten pink

Main article: Mountbatten pink

Mountbatten pink, also called Plymouth pink,[24] is a naval camouflage color, a grayish tone of mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.

Dark pink

Dark pink is a darker, desaturated shade of pink.

Brink pink

Brink pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FB607F
RGBB (r, g, b) (251, 96, 127)
HSV (h, s, v) (333°, 88%, 80%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color brink pink was formulated by Crayola in 1998.

Bright pink

Bright pink is a maximally saturated tone of pink that is another name for the color rose.

In most Indo-European languages, the color that in English is called pink is called rosa; therefore, the color that is called rose in English is called bright rosa in most European and Latin American countries (using whatever adjective in a particular language means bright in that language).

Ultra pink

Ultra pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF6FFF
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 111, 255)
HSV (h, s, v) (300°, 48%, 83%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Ultra pink is a Crayola crayon color invented in 1972. In 1990 the name was changed in error to shocking pink; however, properly speaking, the name shocking pink should be reserved for only the original shocking pink invented by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1937 (shown below).

Shocking pink

Shocking pink

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FC0FC0
RGBB (r, g, b) (252, 15, 192)
HSV (h, s, v) (315°, 94%, 99%)
Source Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Shocking pink is bold and intense. It takes its name from the tone of pink used in the lettering on the box of the perfume called Shocking,[25] designed by Leonor Fini for the Surrealist fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1937. The color shown at right matches the color of the lettering on the original box.[26][27] This in turn was inspired by the Tête de Belier (Ram's Head), a 17.27ct pink diamond from Cartier owned by heiress Daisy Fellowes,[28] who was one of Schiaparelli's best clients.

Shocking pink kept its name in British English,[25] whereas in North America "This intense magenta was called shocking pink in the 1930s, hot pink in the 1950s, and kinky pink in the 1960s...[it] has appeared in the vanguard of more than one youth revolution...to some it sings, to others it screams".[29] This color is now again called "shocking pink" to distinguish it from the web color hot pink (shown above).

NHRA drag racer Shirley Muldowney was famous for driving a shocking pink dragster.

On its way into the German language, shocking pink lost the "shocking" and is called only "Pink"; the color that is called "pink" in English is called "rosa" in German as it is in most other Indo-European languages. Meanwhile in Portuguese one of its nomenclatures arrived intact becoming "cor-de-rosa choque" ("shocking pink") used more frequently in Brazil. It's also called "çingene pembesi" (Gypsy pink) in Turkish.

References

  1. ^ a b c d X11 rgb.txt. XFree86. (February 1994). Retrieved on 16 September 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords. W3C. (May 2003). Retrieved on 16 September 2008.
  3. ^ W3C. "SVG color Keywords, CSS3 color Module, W3C Candidate Recommendation 14 May 2003". http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color. Retrieved 2007-01-06. 
  4. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #FFDDF4 (Pink lace):
  5. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #F9CCCA (Pale pink):
  6. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #F4C2C2 (Baby pink):
  7. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Baby Pink: Page 25 Plate 1 Color Sample C8
  8. ^ Merkin, Daphne. "Gender Trouble", The New York Times Style Magazine, 12 March 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007.
  9. ^ Orenstein, Peggy. "What's Wrong With Cinderella?", The New York Times Magazine, 24 December 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007. Orenstein writes: "When colors were first introduced to the nursery in the early part of the 20th century, pink was considered the more masculine hue, a pastel version of red. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, was thought to be dainty. Why or when that switched is not clear, but as late as the 1930s a significant percentage of adults in one national survey held to that split."
  10. ^ guardian.co.uk, The Power of Pink'. 12 December 2009. Guardian on the 'PinkStinks' campaign
  11. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #EFBBCC (Cameo pink):
  12. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 123; Color Sample of Cameo Pink: Page 25 Plate 50 Color Sample C2
  13. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192; Color Sample of Cherry Blossom Pink: Page 31 Plate 4 Color Sample J4
  14. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192; Color Sample of Carnation Pink: Page 31 Plate 4 Color Sample I4
  15. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #E68FAC (Charm pink):
  16. ^ Plochere Color System:
  17. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #E4717A (Tango pink):
  18. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; color sample of Tango Pink: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample J8
  19. ^ Plochere Color System:
  20. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #F88379 (Congo pink):
  21. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Congo Pink: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample C10
  22. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #DEA5A4 (Pastel pink):
  23. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #D7837F (New York pink):
  24. ^ Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips (1960). The Greatest Raid of All. Little, Brown. http://books.google.com/books?id=3c1zAAAAIAAJ&q=Mountbatten+Pink+plymouth&dq=Mountbatten+Pink+plymouth&ei=f9ywSPXtL4uoswODsLFb&pgis=1. 
  25. ^ a b Woods, Vicki (2003), "Chic value", Daily Telegraph (London), 2003-10-24, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/10/24/baschiap20.xml, retrieved 2008-04-26 
  26. ^ Lisa’s History Room—information about Elsa Schiaparelli:
  27. ^ Shock of Pink: How a Colour Shaped Schiaparelli’s Vision:
  28. ^ Owens, Mitchell (1997), "Jewelry That Gleams With Wicked Memories", New York Times, 1997-04-13, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E4DA173CF930A25757C0A961958260, retrieved 2008-04-26 
  29. ^ Varley, Helen, editor Color London:1980--Marshall Editions, Ltd. ISBN 0-89535-037-8 Page 139
Web colors
black gray silver white maroon red purple fuchsia green lime olive yellow navy blue teal aqua
                               
Shades of pink
Amaranth Amaranth pink Apricot Brink pink Carmine Carnation pink Cerise Coral pink Deep carmine Deep pink
                   
Fandango French rose Fuchsia Hollywood cerise Hot magenta Hot pink Lavender pink Magenta Peach Persian Rose
                   
Pink Puce Rose Rose pink Ruby Salmon Shocking pink Thulian pink Ultra pink
                 
The samples shown above are only indicative.