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Mulberry (color)

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Mulberry
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#C54B8C
sRGBB (r, g, b)(197, 75, 140)
HSV (h, s, v)(328°, 62%, 77%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(50, 77, 341°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong purplish red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color mulberry is displayed on the right. This color is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie. This was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 2003.

The first recorded use of mulberry as a color name in English was in 1776.[1]

Mulberries
Mulberries

It has some similarities with the color raspberry, a shade of red also called mulberry in some countries of Latin America.[citation needed]

General Motors Holden released a model in the color Mulberry. It was the 1979 SL/E Statesman.

Prismacolor also made a pencil after the color mulberry which was number 995

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mulberry: Plate 48 Color Sample E9