Rust (color)

Rust
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#B7410E
sRGBB (r, g, b)(183, 65, 14)
HSV (h, s, v)(18°, 92%, 72%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(44, 102, 20°)
SourceColorHexa[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep reddish orange
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Rust is a red color resembling iron oxide. It is a commonly used color on cars and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a standard tungsten light source.

Rust
Rust

The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692.[2]

  1. ^ "Rust / #b7410e hex color". ColorHexa. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203; Color Sample of Rust: Page 35 Plate 6 Color Sample A12