Rose A rose is either a woody perennial plant, perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred Rose species, species and Garden roses, tens of thousands of cultivar ...

is 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 ...

halfway between

red Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a seconda ...

and

magenta Magenta () is a purple-red color. On color wheels of the RGB color model, RGB (additive) and subtractive color, CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located precisely midway between blue and red. It is one of the four colors of ink used in colo ...

on the HSV color wheel, also known as the

RGB color wheel The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green, and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three ad ...

Rose is one of the

tertiary color A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors of a given color model in even proportions. Combining two secondary colors in the same manner produces a tertiary color. Secondary colors are special in traditional color theory, ...

s on the HSV color wheel. 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 rose is

spring green Spring Green or spring green may refer to: Colors * Spring green ** Spring bud, formerly known as spring green Plants * Spring greens, edible young leaves of certain plants * Spring greens (Brassica oleracea), vegetables Places in the United S ...

. Sometimes rose is quoted instead as the web-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees.

Variations of rose

Lavender blush

This is the web color ''lavender blush''. It is a very pale shade of rose.

Misty rose

''Misty rose'' is a pale shade of rose. It is also a

web color Web most often refers to: * Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal * World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to: Computing * WEB, a literate programming system created by D ...

Tickle me pink

The color ''tickle me pink'' was formulated by

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in 1993.

Persian pink

Since the color rose is so well loved in

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

(

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

), some shades of rose are named after Persia, such as the light tone of rose of this color called ''Persian pink''. This color is very popular in women's fashion. The first recorded use of ''Persian pink'' as a color name in English was in 1922.

Rose pink

The first recorded use of ''rose pink'' as a color name in English was in 1760.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203

Rose bonbon

The name ''rose bonbon'' translates loosely from French into English as ''candy rose'' or ''candy

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 ...

'', or more specifically as ''bonbon rose'' or ''bonbon pink'' – presumably referring to

bonbon A bonbon, sometimes bon-bon, is a small chocolate confection. They are sometimes filled with liqueur or other sweet alcoholic drinks and sold wrapped in colored foil. Ingredients Through the Western world, bonbons are usually small candies but v ...

s that are coated with icing that is colored rose bonbon. Bonbon couilles de singe

''Rose bonbon'' is a tone of rose that is popular in France.

Brilliant rose

The color ''brilliant rose'' is a Crayola color formulated in 1949, but the name was changed in 1958 to ''magenta''. The original name is more accurate since this color, having a hue code of 329, is much closer to rose than (web color) magenta.

Thulian pink

The color ''Thulian pink'' is also called ''Thulite pink''; the first recorded use of ''Thulite pink'' as a color name in English was in 1912. The term ''Thulian pink'' refers to the land of

Thule Thule ( ; also spelled as ''Thylē'') is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. First written of by the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France) in about 320 BC, i ...

. Another name for this color is ''first lady''. The first use of ''first lady'' as a color name in English was when the ''Plochere Color System'' (widely used by interior designers) was inaugurated in 1948. Thulite

The hex code for Thulian pink is identical to that of China pink and Liseran purple.

French rose

The color ''French rose'' is also called ''France rose''. The first recorded use of ''France rose'' as a color name in English was in 1926. Color sample of French rose—this color matches exactly the color sample shown as "France rose" in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color''.

Razzmatazz

The color ''Razzmatazz'' is a rich shade of crimson-rose. ''Razzmatazz'' was a new

crayon color chosen in 1993 as a part of the ''Name The New Colors Contest''. It was named by then 5-year-old Laura Bartolomei-Hill. She was the youngest winner of Crayola's "Name the New Colors Contest."

Razzle dazzle rose

The color ''razzle dazzle rose'' is a vivid tone of rose tending toward magenta. The color ''razzle dazzle rose'' was named by

in 1990. Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been named ''hot magenta''.

Persian rose

The first recorded use of ''Persian rose'' as a color name in English was in 1921. This color matches the color of the ''Persian rose'' color sample in ''A Dictionary of Color''—a highly saturated color close to the outer surface of the color sphere, just below the equator of the color sphere, about halfway between rose and magenta. The color ''Persian rose'' may also be described as a color close to the purple boundary of the

CIE chromaticity diagram In 1931, the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) published the CIE 1931 color spaces which define the relationship between the visible spectrum and human color vision. The CIE color spaces are mathematical models that comprise a "stan ...

about halfway between rose and magenta.

Rose gold

''Rose gold'' is one of the eight Metallic FX colors formulated by Crayola in 2019. Although this is supposed to be a

metallic color A metallic color is a color that appears to be that of a polished metal. The visual sensation usually associated with metals is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the mater ...

, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

Fuchsia rose

''Fuchsia rose'' is the color that was chosen as the 2001 Pantone color of the year by

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. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-2031 TPX—Fuchsia rose.

Rose red

The source of ''rose red'' is the "

Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-1852 TPX—Rose red.

Telemagenta

The color ''telemagenta'' is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, a color system widely used in Europe. The RAL color list first originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.

Dogwood rose

The color ''dogwood rose'' is sometimes called ''dogwood red''. Dogwood rose in nature:

Raspberry rose

This is the color ''raspberry rose''.

China rose

The color ''China rose'' is a deep tone of rose. The first recorded use of ''China rose'' as a color name in English was in 1925.

Folly

This is the color ''Folly''.

Ruby

''Ruby'' is a color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished

ruby Ruby is a pinkish-red-to-blood-red-colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapph ...

gemstone. Ruby as a color is more akin to

rose A rose is either a woody perennial plant, perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred Rose species, species and Garden roses, tens of thousands of cultivar ...

than

Liseran purple

The first recorded use of ''liseran purple'' as a color name in English was in 1912.

Pearly purple

''Pearly purple'' is one of the colors in the special set of metallic colored

crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Mulberry

The color ''mulberry'' is a representation of the color of

mulberry ''Morus'', a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions. Generally, the genus has 64 subordinat ...

jam or pie. This was a

crayon color from 1958 to 2003. The first recorded use of ''mulberry'' as a color name in English was in 1776.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mulberry: Plate 48 Color Sample E9

French (Canada) Rose

''French (Canada) rose'' is one of the brilliant raspberry color.

References

External links

* ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) – – See sample of the color arkPersian rose (color sample #254) displayed on indicated page. * ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) – {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose (Color) Tertiary colors