Rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
is the
color
Color (American English) or colour (British English) is the visual perceptual property deriving from the spectrum of light interacting with the photoreceptor cells of the eyes. Color categories and physical specifications of color are assoc ...
halfway between
red
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...
and
magenta
Magenta () is a color that is variously defined as pinkish- purplish- red, reddish-purplish-pink or mauvish-crimson. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located exactly midway between red and blu ...
on the
HSV color wheel, also known as the
RGB color wheel.
![Rosa rubiginosa 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Rosa_rubiginosa_1.jpg)
Rose is one of the
tertiary color
A tertiary color or intermediate color is a color made by mixing full saturation of one primary color with half saturation of another primary color and none of a third primary color, in a given color space such as RGB, CMYK (more modern) or RYB ...
s on the HSV color wheel. The
complementary color
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out (lose hue) by producing a grayscale color like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two co ...
of rose is
spring green. Sometimes rose is quoted instead as the
web-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees.
Variations of rose
Lavender blush
This is the web color lavender blush. It is a very pale shade of rose.
Misty rose
Misty rose is a pale shade of rose. It is also a
web color
Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a ''hex triplet'') or according to their c ...
.
Tickle me pink
The color tickle me pink was formulated by
Crayola
Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing company specializing in art supplies. It is known for its brand ''Crayola'' and best known for its crayons. The company is headquartered in Forks Township, Pennsylva ...
in 1993.
Persian pink
Since the color rose is so well loved in
Persia
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
(
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
), some shades of rose are named after Persia, such as the light tone of rose of this color called Persian pink. This color is very popular in women's fashion.
The first recorded use of ''Persian pink'' as a color name in English was in 1922.
Rose pink
The first recorded use of rose pink as a color name in English was in 1760.
[Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203]
Rose bonbon
The name rose bonbon translates loosely from French into English as ''candy rose'' or ''candy
pink
Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, ...
'', or more specifically as ''bonbon rose'' or ''bonbon pink'' – presumably referring to
bonbons that are coated with icing that is colored rose bonbon.
![Bonbon couilles de singe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Bonbon_couilles_de_singe.jpg)
''Rose bonbon'' is a tone of rose that is popular in France.
Brilliant rose
The color brilliant rose is a Crayola color formulated in 1949, but the name was changed in 1958 to ''magenta''.
The original name is more accurate since this color, having a hue code of 329, is much closer to rose than (web color) magenta.
Thulian pink
The color Thulian pink is also called Thulite pink; the first recorded use of ''Thulite pink'' as a color name in English was in 1912.
The term ''Thulian pink'' refers to the land of
Thule
Thule ( grc-gre, Θούλη, Thoúlē; la, Thūlē) is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Modern interpretations have included Orkney, Shetland, northern Scotland, the island of Saar ...
.
Another name for this color is first lady. The first use of ''first lady'' as a color name in English was in 1948 when the ''Plochere Color System'', (a color system that is widely used by interior designers) was inaugurated in 1948.
![Thulite](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Thulite.jpg)
The hex code for Thulian pink is identical to that of
China pink
''Dianthus chinensis'', commonly known as rainbow pink or China pink () is a species of ''Dianthus'' native to northern China, Korea, Mongolia, and southeastern Russia.Flora of China''Dianthus chinensis''/ref> It is a herbaceous perennial plant ...
and
Liseran purple.
French rose
The color French rose is also called France rose.
The first recorded use of ''France rose'' as a color name in English was in 1926.
Color sample of French rose—this color matches exactly the color sample shown as "France rose" in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color''.
Razzmatazz
The color Razzmatazz is a rich shade of crimson-rose.
''Razzmatazz'' was a new
Crayola
Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing company specializing in art supplies. It is known for its brand ''Crayola'' and best known for its crayons. The company is headquartered in Forks Township, Pennsylva ...
crayon color chosen in 1993 as a part of the ''Name The New Colors Contest''.
It was named by then 5-year-old Laura Bartolomei-Hill. She was the youngest winner of Crayola's "Name the New Colors Contest."
Razzle dazzle rose
The color razzle dazzle rose is a vivid tone of rose tending toward magenta.
The color ''razzle dazzle rose'' was named by
Crayola
Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing company specializing in art supplies. It is known for its brand ''Crayola'' and best known for its crayons. The company is headquartered in Forks Township, Pennsylva ...
in 1990. Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been named ''hot magenta''.
Persian rose
The first recorded use of Persian rose as a color name in English was in 1921.
This color matches the color of the ''Persian rose'' color sample in ''A Dictionary of Color''—a highly saturated color close to the outer surface of the
color sphere, just below the equator of the color sphere, about halfway between rose and magenta. The color ''Persian rose'' may also be described as a color close to the purple boundary of the
CIE chromaticity diagram
The CIE 1931 color spaces are the first defined quantitative links between distributions of wavelengths in the electromagnetic visible spectrum, and physiologically perceived colors in human color vision. The mathematical relationships that defi ...
about halfway between rose and magenta.
Fuchsia rose
Fuchsia rose is the color that was chosen as the 2001
Pantone color of the year by
Pantone
Pantone LLC (stylized as PANTONE) is a limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphi ...
.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-2031 TPX—Fuchsia rose.
Rose red
![A red rose with dewdrops 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/A_red_rose_with_dewdrops_1.jpg)
The source of rose red is the "
Pantone
Pantone LLC (stylized as PANTONE) is a limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphi ...
Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-1852 TPX—Rose red.
Telemagenta
The color telemagenta is one of the colors in the
RAL color matching system, a color system widely used in Europe. The RAL color list first originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.
Dogwood rose
![Dog Rose (Rosa canina)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Dog_Rose_%28Rosa_canina%29.jpg)
The color dogwood rose is sometimes called ''dogwood red''. Dogwood rose in nature:
Raspberry rose
This is the color raspberry rose.
China rose
The color China rose is a deep tone of rose.
The first recorded use of ''China rose'' as a color name in English was in 1925.
Folly
This is the color Folly.
Ruby
![Ruby gem](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Ruby_gem.JPG)
Ruby is a color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished
ruby
A ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called ...
gemstone. Ruby as a color is more akin to
rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
than
red
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...
.
Liseran purple
The first recorded use of liseran purple as a color name in English was in 1912.
Pearly purple
Pearly purple is one of the colors in the special set of metallic colored
Crayola
Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing company specializing in art supplies. It is known for its brand ''Crayola'' and best known for its crayons. The company is headquartered in Forks Township, Pennsylva ...
crayons called
Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.
Mulberry
![WhiteMulberry](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/WhiteMulberry.JPG)
The color mulberry is a representation of the color of
mulberry jam or pie. This was a
Crayola
Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing company specializing in art supplies. It is known for its brand ''Crayola'' and best known for its crayons. The company is headquartered in Forks Township, Pennsylva ...
crayon color from 1958 to 2003.
The first recorded use of ''mulberry'' as a color name in English was in 1776.
[Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mulberry: Plate 48 Color Sample E9]
French (Canada) Rose
French (Canada) rose is one of the brilliant raspberry color.
See also
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Amaranth (color)
Amaranth is a reddish- rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower (the color normally considered amaranth), but there are other varieties of am ...
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Cerise (color)
Cerise ( or ; ) is a deep to vivid reddish pink.
Etymology
The colour or name comes from the French word , meaning "cherry".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of ''cerise'' as a colour name in English was in ...
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Fuchsia (color)
Fuchsia (, ) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
The color fuchsia was f ...
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Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...
: "La Ville rose"
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List of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (compact)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
* List of RAL colors
* List of X ...
References
External links
*ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)
Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps– See sample of the color
ark
Ark or ARK may refer to:
Biblical narratives and religion Hebrew word ''teva''
* Noah's Ark, a massive vessel said to have been built to save the world's animals from a flood
* Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses
Hebrew ''aron''
* ...
Persian rose (color sample #254) displayed on indicated page.
*ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)
Color Sample of Tea rose (color sample #28)
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Tertiary colors