The various tones of the

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coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those

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ns known as

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s. The

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coral is a shade of orange. It is displayed at the upper right. Other modern color schemes use different shades of orange or red. The first recorded use of ''coral'' as a color name in

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was in 1513.

Variations of coral

Coral red

The color coral red is displayed at right.

Coral pink

The color coral pink is displayed at right, a

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ish color. The

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of coral pink is

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. The first recorded use of ''coral pink'' as a color name in

was in 1892. Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by

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, as the RGB, hex and HTML color table showed the same color as being reddish, standing against popular belief of pinkish. Still today, some people call Coral Red as Coral Pink due to this old attribution. The normalized color coordinates for coral pink are identical to Congo pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1912.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Congo Pink: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample C10

Light coral

The web color light coral is a pinkish-light orange color as displayed to the right. It is also a HTML/CSS color name and a X11 color name.

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Variations of coral

Coral red

Coral pink

Light coral

See also

References