Peach (color)
Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the peach fruit. Like the color apricot, the color called peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color apricot) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design. Peach can also be described as pale orange.
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[edit] Peach
| Peach | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #FFE5B4 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 229, 180) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (40°, 29%, 100%) |
| Source | [Unsourced] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color peach.
The shade of peach shown at right approximates the color of the interior flesh of that variety of peaches known as white peaches.
The first recorded use of peach as a color name in English was in 1588.[1]
[edit] Etymology of peach
The etymology of the color peach (and the fruit): the word comes from the Middle English peche, derived from Middle French, in turn derived from Latin persica, i.e., the fruit from Persia. In actuality, the ultimate origin of the peach fruit was from China.
[edit] Variations of peach
[edit] Peach puff
| Peach Puff | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #FFDAB9 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 218, 185) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (40°, 29%, 100%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the web color peach puff.
[edit] Crayola
| Peach | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #FFCBA4 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 203, 164) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (40°, 34%, 100%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the color called peach in Crayola crayons (formerly called flesh before 1962).
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw Hill Page 201; Color Sample of Peach: Page 41 Plate 9 Color Sample A5
[edit] See also
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| 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. | |||||||||
