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99 Types of Named Color

 , May 30, 2019
Named colors are colors that are associated with a word in a natural language such as English, French or Japanese. Every language has words for basic colors such as red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, black and white. It is also common for words to emerge to describe specific colors found in nature, architecture, fashion and art. Such color names can become part of a language such that they are defined in dictionaries. Color names are also associated with consumer products such as crayons, commercial products such as dyes and technologies such as operating systems. Modern visual designers commonly work with tools that can produce millions of unique colors. These are mostly specified with numbers that aren't well suited to human memory or thought processes. As such, there have been efforts to name large numbers of colors in order to make design environments more human friendly. The following color palettes include thousands of named colors from sources such as languages, culture, open standards or common usage.
Amber
Aqua
Auburn
Baby Blue
Baby Pink
Beige
Black
Blue
Bone
Bottle Green
Brick
Brown
Burgundy
Canary Yellow
Candy Apple Red
Candy Pink
Carmine Red
Celadon
Cerise
Charcoal Color
Chartreuse
Cherry Blossom Pink
Cherry Red
Chocolate
Coconut
Coral
Crimson
Dirt Brown
Electric Blue
Emerald
Fern Green
Fire Engine Red
Forest Green
Gold
Green
Grey
Hot Pink
Jungle Green
Lemon Color
Lime
Mango
Maroon
Mauve
Middle Gray
Mulberry
Myrtle Green
Obsidian Black
Olive Green
Orange
Pearl
Periwinkle
Persian Blue
Persian Red
Pineapple
Pink
Powder Blue
Purple
Red
Ruby
Sapphire
Sea Green
Silver
Snow
Sunflower Yellow
Taupe
Tea Green
Toffee
Tomato
Turquoise
Tyrian Purple
Ultramarine
Umber
Verdigris
Vermilion
Violet
Wheat
White
Wisteria
Yellow

Named Color Lists

The following are named color palettes according to color type or theme.
Classic Colors
Colors
Cool Colors
Earth Tone
Electric Colors
Fluorescent Colors
Jewel Colors
Medium Colors
Neon
Pale Colors
Pastels
Tropical Colors
Victorian Colors
Warm Colors
Bright Colors
Dark Colors
Japanese Colors
Japanese Reds
Light Colors
Neutrals
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