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Colours made from aniline

10 colours that our sources say are made from aniline.

#FF00FF Magenta A purplish-pink colour named after a battle and key to modern printingNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +4

Pink and magenta Basic fuchsine A magenta dye used in biology and textile staining since the 19th centuryPigment Purple and violet Mauveine A purple dye first made by accident in 1856, launching the synthetic dye industryDye #E9D66B Arylide yellow A family of semi-transparent yellow pigments used in art and industryPigment · 🇩🇪 Germany +1

Purple and violet Pigment violet 23 A synthetic violet pigment from the dioxazine family, used in commercial applicationsPigment

Blue Brilliant blue FCF A synthetic blue dye widely used in foods, drinks, and medicinesPigment · 🇺🇸 United States Red Red 2G A synthetic red azo dye once used in food and inks, now banned in many countriesDye · 🇦🇺 Australia +4

Orange Solvent Yellow 14 An orange-red azo dye once used in food, now banned for food and textilesPigment Blue Azuline A blue synthetic dye from coal tar, used for silk in the 1860sDye #CA1F7B Magenta (dye) A deep pink-purple dye first made from coal tar in 1859Named shade · 🇮🇹 Italy

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Magenta: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Basic fuchsine: LHcheM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Pigment violet 23: Smokefoot, Public domain, source
Brilliant blue FCF: Soldier of Wasteland, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Solvent Yellow 14: Jürgen Martens, Public domain, source

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