The various tones of the
color
Color (or colour in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though co ...
coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those
cnidaria
Cnidaria ( ) is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic invertebrates found both in fresh water, freshwater and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroid (zoology), hydroids, ...
ns known as
precious corals.
The
web color coral is a shade of orange. It is displayed adjacent. Other modern color schemes use different shades of orange or red.
The first recorded use of ''coral'' as a color name in
English was in 1513.
Variations of coral
Coral red
The color coral red is displayed next to tis
.
Coral pink
The color coral pink is displayed adjacent, a
pink
Pink is a pale tint of red, the color of the Dianthus plumarius, pink flower. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, p ...
ish color.
[
The ]complementary color
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or color mixing, mixed, cancel each other out (lose Colorfulness, chroma) by producing a grayscale color like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the stronge ...
of coral pink is teal. The first recorded use of ''coral pink'' as a color name in English was in 1892. Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by Pantone, 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
The web color light coral is a pinkish-light orange color as displayed adjacent. It is also a HTML/CSS color name and a X11 color name.
See also
* List of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (alphabetical)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
* List of RAL colours
* List o ...
* RAL 3016 Coral red
References
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Shades of orange
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