Results for "historical"
13 colours found.
Blue
Lapis lazuli
A deep blue stone prized for jewellery and the source of ultramarine pigmentColour named from nature · 🇦🇫 Afghanistan +5
Blue
Han purple and Han blue
Ancient synthetic pigments of blue and purple, first made in early ChinaPigment · 🇨🇳 China
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X11 color names
A set of colour names and values used in the X Window System and early web browsersStandard colour
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Stil de grain yellow
A yellow pigment made from buckthorn berries, once known as 'pink' or 'sap green'Pigment · 🇫🇷 France +2
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Pompeian red
A deep red seen on ancient Roman walls and ceramics, named for the ruins of PompeiiNamed shade
Blue
Blue hair
Hair coloured blue by dye, art, or nature’s rare effectsNamed shade · 🇯🇵 Japan +5
Purple and violet
Caput mortuum
A deep purple pigment made from iron oxide, once used for painting robesPigment
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Tuscan red
A deep, dark red once standard on railway passenger carsNamed shade · 🇦🇺 Australia
Black
Atramentum
A deep black ink or dye once used for writing, leather and painting in ancient RomePigment
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Lusty gallant
A pale pink shade named after a Tudor dance in 16th-century EnglandNamed shade
Red
Sappanwood
A tropical Asian tree whose heartwood yields a red dye called brazilinColour named from nature · 🇳🇵 Nepal +4
Yellow
Dyer's saw-wort
A European plant once used for its yellow dye from the leavesColour named from nature · 🇮🇪 Ireland +3
Yellow
Symplocos tinctoria yellow
A yellow dye once made from the bark and leaves of a North American treeColour named from nature · 🇺🇸 United States
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- X11 color names: Gabriela Ruellan, CC0, source
- Tuscan red: User:Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pompeian red: Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lapis lazuli: Adam Ognisty, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue hair: Kevin Dooley, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sappanwood: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dyer's saw-wort: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Symplocos tinctoria yellow: James H. Miller & Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.o, CC BY 3.0 us, source