Coral (color)

Variations of coral

Coral red

The color coral red is displayed next to this block of text.

Coral pink

The color coral pink is displayed adjacent, a pinkish color.

The complementary color of coral pink is teal. The first recorded use of coral pink as a color name in English was in 1892. Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by Pantone, as the RGB, hex and HTML color table showed the same color as being reddish, standing against popular belief of pinkish.

Still today, some people call coral red "coral pink" due to this old attribution.

The normalized color coordinates for coral pink are identical to Congo pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1912.

Light coral

X11 color names

The web color light coral is a pinkish-light orange color as displayed adjacent. It is also a HTML/CSS color name and a X11 color name.

Gallery

File:Corail algérien.jpg|A coral-colored Algerian coral File:Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758) 11.jpg|Precious coral (Corallium rubrum) File:iPhone XR Coral.jpg|iPhone XR in coral

References

References

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4. "Coral red / #ff4040 hex color".
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6. Maerz, Aloys John. (1930). "A Dictionary of Color". McGraw-Hill Book Company.
7. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Congo Pink: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample C10