Named shades
A particular tint or shade with a name of its own, from azure to zaffre.
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Bistre
A dark brown pigment and colour made from soot, once used in Old Master drawingsPigment
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Turkey red
A lasting bright red dye for cotton, made from madder root by a complex processNamed shade · 🇹🇷 Turkey +4
Turquoise and cyan
Haint blue
A pale blue-green paint used on porch ceilings in the Southern United StatesNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States
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Alizarin crimson
A deep red with blue undertones, once made from madder rootsNamed shade · 🇪🇬 Egypt
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Lincoln green
A yellowish-green cloth colour first made in medieval Lincoln, EnglandNamed shade
Blue
Coventry blue
A blue cloth from Coventry, dyed with woad and known for its lasting colourNamed shade
Brown
Caramel
A golden-brown colour and sweet made by heating sugar until it brownsNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +2
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bistre: The original uploader was Jean-no at French Wikipedia ., Public domain, source
- Lincoln green: Howard Pyle, Public domain, source
- Caramel: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Zenz assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alizarin crimson: Sojol Rana, Public domain, source
- Haint blue: Lake Lou, CC BY 2.0, source