The various tones of the

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coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those

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ns known as

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s. The

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was in 1513.

Variations of coral

Coral red

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Coral pink

The color coral pink is displayed adjacent, a

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ish color. The

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of coral pink is

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. The first recorded use of ''coral pink'' as a color name in

was in 1892. Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by

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, as the RGB, hex and HTML color table showed the same color as being reddish, standing against popular belief of pinkish. Still today, some people call coral red "coral pink" due to this old attribution. The normalized color coordinates for coral pink are identical to Congo pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1912.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

Light coral

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Variations of coral

Coral red

Coral pink

Light coral

See also

References