Colours of uniforms, teams and vehicles
Regiments, schools, sports clubs, airlines, taxis and racing cars.
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Gold
A strong yellow named for the precious metal and often linked with wealth and first placeNamed shade
Green
Vert
The heraldic name for green, seen on coats of arms and many national flagsHeraldic colour · 🇧🇷 Brazil +4
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Buff
A pale brownish yellow named for the colour of natural leatherNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States +3
Purple and violet
Purpure
A heraldic colour for purple, seen in coats of arms since early timesBasic colour
Orange
Tenné
A rare heraldic stain of orange-tawny, named for tanned leatherNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +3
Purple and violet
Murrey
A dark reddish purple used as a rare heraldic colourHeraldic colour
Pink and magenta
Rose
A bright pink colour used as a heraldic tincture in Canada since the late 1900sHeraldic colour
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Buff: Johan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gold: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Murrey: Mich Taylor, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tenné: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Public domain, source
- Vert: Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Purpure: Lobsterthermidor ( talk ) 13:24, 30 April 2017 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rose: X xCHADx, Public domain, source