Other traditions colours
Shinto vermilion, Taoist yellow, Zoroastrian white and ancestral traditions.
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Yellow
A primary colour between green and orange, seen in sunlight, leaves, and pigmentsBasic colour · 🇫🇷 France +5
Green
Malachite
A banded green mineral and pigment once prized for art and decorationColour named from nature · 🇪🇬 Egypt +4
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Peach
A soft pastel shade named for the inside of a peach fruitNamed shade · 🇨🇳 China
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Maya blueazul maya
A vivid turquoise blue pigment made by the ancient Maya and AztecsPigment · 🇲🇽 Mexico +1
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Blue-green
The colour between blue and green, part of the cyan familyNamed shade · 🇦🇺 Australia +3
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Maya blue: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Malachite: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Peach: Jack Dykinga, USDA, Public domain, source
- Yellow: Mark Robinson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Blue-green: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source