Colours of screens and design
Websites, apps, film and anything lit from behind.
#FF00FF
Magenta
A purplish-pink colour named after a battle and key to modern printingNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +4
#003153
Prussian blue
A deep blue pigment first made in Berlin in the early 1700sPigment · 🇯🇵 Japan
Yellow
Tartrazine
A synthetic lemon yellow dye widely used in food, cosmetics and medicinesDye
Black
Vantablack
A super-black coating made from carbon nanotubes that absorbs nearly all visible lightPigment
#2E5090
YInMn Blue
A modern, stable blue pigment made from yttrium, indium and manganese oxidesPigment · 🇺🇸 United States +1
White
Titanium dioxide
A brilliant white pigment made from titanium, used in paints, food and sunscreenPigment · 🇨🇳 China +5
#E32600
Methyl orange
An orange-red azo dye used as a pH indicator in chemistryDye
#000F89
Phthalo blue
A strong, synthetic blue pigment made from copper phthalocyaninePigment · 🇩🇪 Germany +1
#EEE600
Titanium yellow
A strong yellow pigment made from titanium, nickel, and antimony oxidesPigment
Yellow
Pigment Yellow 83
A reddish-yellow diarylide pigment used in inks and plasticsPigment
Yellow
Pigment Yellow 97
A synthetic yellow pigment valued for its high fastness and stabilityPigment
Yellow
Benzimidazolone pigments
A group of strong, lightfast yellow, orange, and red synthetic pigmentsPigment
Red
Erythrosine
A bright red-pink synthetic dye used in food, cosmetics, and industryDye · 🇺🇸 United States +4
Blue
Brilliant blue FCF
A synthetic blue dye widely used in foods, drinks, and medicinesPigment · 🇺🇸 United States
Orange
Chrysoine resorcinol
A synthetic azo dye once used in food and as a pH indicatorDye
Blue
Viologen
Organic compounds that switch between blue, violet and yellow when reduced or oxidisedPigment
Purple and violet
Pigment Violet 29
A dark red-purple pigment used in paints, inks, and dyesPigment
Red
Iodonitrotetrazolium chloride
A chemical that forms a rusty red dye when reduced in lab assaysPigment
Orange
Pyrylium-1
A dye that turns fluorescent orange when it binds to aminesDye
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
- Phthalo blue: Smokefoot, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- YInMn Blue: Mas Subramanian, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vantablack: Surrey NanoSystems, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Titanium dioxide: The original uploader was Walkerma at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, source
- Tartrazine: Buli, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Benzimidazolone pigments: Hardcoreraveman, Public domain, source
- Methyl orange: Rubashkyn, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Prussian blue: Picture created by publunch, Public domain, source
- Brilliant blue FCF: Soldier of Wasteland, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Viologen: Smokefoot, Public domain, source
- Pigment Violet 29: Smokefoot, Public domain, source