A-Z Color Game

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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 secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and

is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to

bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy.

 

Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art. The Ancient Egyptians

and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman generals had their bodies colored red to

celebrate victories. It was also an important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and

later the gates and walls of palaces: In the Renaissance, the brilliant red costumes for the nobility

and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal.

 

The 19th century brought the introduction of the first synthetic red dyes, which replaced the traditional

dyes. Red became a symbolic color of communism and socialism; Soviet Russia adopted a red flag

following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Communist

China adopted the red flag following the Chinese Revolution of 1949. It was adopted by North Vietnam

in 1954, and by all of Vietnam in 1975.

 

Since red is the color of blood, it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger, and courage.

Modern surveys in Europe and the United States show red is also the color most commonly associated

with heat, activity, passion, sexuality, anger, love, and joy. In China, India, and many other Asian countries

it is the color symbolizing happiness and good fortune.

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Saffron

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Tiffany Blue

 

Tiffany Blue is the colloquial name for the light medium robin egg blue color associated with Tiffany & Co.,

the New York City jewelry company created by Charles Tiffany and John Young in 1837. The color was used

on the cover of Tiffany's Blue Book, first published in 1845. Since then, Tiffany & Co. has used the color

extensively on promotional materials like boxes and bags.

 

Since 1998, the Tiffany Blue color has been registered as a color trademark by Tiffany & Co.

 

It is produced as a private custom color by Pantone, with PMS number 1837, the number deriving from the

year of Tiffany's foundation.

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UA Blue

 

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Verdigris

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Wintergreen Dream

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Xanadu

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Yellow-Orange

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Zinnwaldite Brown

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Amber

 

The color amber is a pure chroma color, located on the color wheel midway between the colors of yellow and

orange. The color name is derived from the material also known as amber, which is commonly found in a

range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color amber can refer to a range of yellow-orange colors.

 

In English, the first recorded use of the term as a color name, rather than a reference to the specific substance,

was in 1500.

 

Amber is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal lamps. In North America, SAE

standard J578 governs the colorimetry of vehicle lights, while outside North America the internationalized

European ECE regulations hold force. Both standards designate a range of orange-yellow hues in the CIE color

space as "amber".

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In the past, the ECE amber definition was more restrictive than the SAE definition, but the current ECE

definition is identical to the more permissive SAE standard. The SAE formally uses the term "yellow amber",

though the color is most often referred to as "yellow". This is not the same as selective yellow, a color used

in some fog lamps and headlamps.

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Beige

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Cambridge Blue

 

Cambridge Blue is the colour commonly used by sports teams from the University of Cambridge. There is

contextual and historical variation. The colour used since the mid-20th century by Cambridge University

Boat Club is greener than that used by Cambridge University R.U.F.C. (in rugby union). This rowing colour

was created when Alf Twinn, the boatman from 1934 to 1984, added more yellow to this shade, reportedly

to distinguish it from the rugby club's colour.

 

The Cambridge University official colour style guide defines Cambridge Blue as Pantone 557 C; with RGB

values of R 133, G 176, B 154.

 

This colour has evolved into a medium tone of spring green. Spring green colours are colours with an h code

(hue code) of between 135 and 165; this colour has an h code of 140, putting it within the range of spring green

colours on the RGB colour wheel.

 

University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations has endorsed a selection of clothing retailers

restricting their goods to proven alumni. Their main colours range from Cambridge Navy: with red bands, or

the university crests; through to a shade of Cambridge Blue (sometimes with Cambridge Navy bands) in the

case of the main silk tie achieved through darkened Cambridge Blue and white interweaving.

 

Other colours selected for the iconic bands and stripes of the house styles are white, black, and Pantone 285

(blue), 158 (orange), 369 (green), 513 (purple) and 7466 (teal). Pantone 032 (red) and 109 (yellow) feature in the

official University coat of arms.

 

A well-cited explanation to the origin of the colour goes back to the second Boat Race, held in 1836. Three of

the participants in the Cambridge boat were from Gonville & Caius College. They thus sourced or had a light

blue ribbon, the colour of their boat club. Given Cambridge won by 20 lengths, the University Boat Club asked

the college whether the university could adopt the colour as well.

 

In their training kit and at the formal socials the boat club recognises its full first boat participants in that

they may wear blue's silk tie, and half-blues (the reserve boat's competitors) have their own version which

is banded half-white

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Dark Tangerine

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Eminence

 

The color name eminence, used since the 1800s, has been in modern use for this color since 2001 when

the Xona.com Color List was first promulgated.

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