Coral (color)

A coral-colored Algerian coral

The various tones of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.

Coral
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FF7F50
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 127, 80)
HSV (h, s, v)(16°, 69%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(67, 110, 24°)
SourceHTML/CSS[1]
X11 color names[2]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid reddish pink
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color coral is a shade of orange. It is displayed adjacent. Other modern color schemes use different shades of orange or red.

The first recorded use of coral as a color name in English was in 1513.[3]

  1. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords. W3C. (May 2003). Retrieved on 21 September 2008.
  2. ^ X11 rgb.txt Archived May 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. XFree86. (February 1994). Retrieved on 21 September 2008.
  3. ^ Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. 193. Color sample of coral: page 27, plate 2, color sample J10.