Colours beginning with F
15 colours under F.
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Fallow
A soft brown shade named for the look of dry fields and old leavesNamed shade
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Falu redfalu rödfärg
A deep red paint pigment from the Falun copper mine, used on wooden houses in SwedenPigment · 🇸🇪 Sweden +2
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Fawn
A pale yellowish tan seen in fabrics and many dog breedsNamed shade
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Feldgrau
A green-grey shade long used for military uniforms in Germany and beyondNamed shade · 🇩🇪 Germany +5
Brown
Ferrihydrite
A dark brown to yellow-brown iron mineral found in soils and water depositsColour named from nature · 🇩🇪 Germany
Green
Ferroverdin
A green pigment formed by certain Streptomyces bacteriaPigment
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Fire engine red
A bright red shade long used on fire engines and emergency vehiclesNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States +1
Orange
Flavin mononucleotide
An orange-red food colour and biomolecule made from vitamin B2Pigment · 🇺🇸 United States
Brown
Flaxen
A genetic trait giving chestnut horses pale, golden manes and tailsNamed shade
Orange
Flexirubin
A yellow-orange pigment found in certain bacteriaPigment
Orange
Food orange 2
A synthetic orange azo dye once used in foods, now banned for safety reasonsDye
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Forest green
A deep green matching the leaves of temperate forestsNamed shade
Blue
Formazan
A group of synthetic dyes with colours from dark blue to deep red or orangePigment
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French lilac
A medium dark violet shade first named in English in 1814Named shade
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Fulvous
A dull orange-brown shade seen in animals and fungiNamed shade
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Fallow: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0, source
- Fire engine red: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fulvous: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Forest green: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0, source
- Ferrihydrite: Henk Smeets – tomeikminerals.com, CC BY 4.0, source
- Flaxen: ThatPeskyCommoner, CC BY 3.0, source
- Falu red: Moralist, Public domain, source
- Feldgrau: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Food orange 2: No machine-readable author provided. Shaddack assumed (based on copyri, Public domain, source
- Formazan: Прокопюк Владимир Юрьевич, CC BY-SA 4.0, source