Chestnut (color) - Citizendia

Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CD5C5C
^B	(r, g, b)	(205, 92, 92)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 55%, 80%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Indian red also known as chestnut, is a medium brownish shade of red. Web colors are Colors used in designing web pages and the methods for describing and specifying those colors Red is any of a number of similar Colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of Light discernible by the human eye in the wavelength Green is a Color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a Wavelength of roughly 520–570- nm. Blue is a Colour, the Perception of which is evoked by HSL and HSV are two related representations of points in an RGB color space, which attempt to describe perceptual color relationships more accurately than Hue is one of the main properties of a Color described with names such as " Red " " Yellow " etc In Colorimetry and Color theory, colorfulness, chroma, and saturation are related but distinct concepts referring to the perceived intensity Brightness is an attribute of Visual perception in which a source appears to emit or reflect a given amount of Light. Web colors are Colors used in designing web pages and the methods for describing and specifying those colors Red is any of a number of similar Colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of Light discernible by the human eye in the wavelength It is named after the red laterite soil found in India. Laterite (from the Latin word "later" meaning brick or tile is a surface formation in hot and wet tropical areas which is enriched in Iron and Aluminium India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country It is thus an earth tone as well as a red. Earth tone is a Color scheme that draws from a color palette of Browns tans Greys Greens Blues and some Reds Red is any of a number of similar Colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of Light discernible by the human eye in the wavelength It is composed of naturally occurring iron oxides. Altogether there are sixteen known Iron Oxides and oxyhydroxides

Indian red is not named after Native Americans. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. However, because of the possible confusion, Crayola changed their crayon color Indian Red to Chestnut. Crayola is a brand of marking utensils such as markers chalk crayons and colored pencils manufactured by Crayola LLC (formerly Binney & Smith

Conkers showing their distinctive Chestnut coloring

Other shades of iron oxides include Venetian Red and English Red. Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated pigment that is a darker shade of scarlet, derived from nearly pure Ferric oxide (Fe2O3

The name Chestnut derives from the color of the skin of a newly released fruit, the "conker", of the common Horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Aesculus hippocastanum is a large Deciduous Tree, commonly known as Horse-chestnut or Conker tree.

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