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pink
Pink is a pale tint of red or rose, the color of the pink flower. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. A combination of pink and white is associated with innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction.
purple
Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is created by mixing red and blue light in order to create colors that appear similar to violet light. According to color theory, purple is considered a cool color.
indigo
Indigo is a term used for a number of hues in the region of blue. The word comes from the ancient dye of the same name. The term "indigo" can refer to the color of the dye, various colors of fabric dyed with indigo dye, a spectral color, one of the seven colors of the rainbow as described by Sir Isaac Newton, or a region on the color wheel, and can include various shades of blue, ultramarine, and green-blue. Since the web era, the term has also been used for various purple and violet hues identified as "indigo", based on use of the term "indigo" in HTML web page specifications.
gold
color tone resembling the gold chemical element
olive
dark yellowish green color
ultramarine
Ultramarine is a deep blue pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. Its lengthy grinding and washing process makes the natural pigment quite valuable—roughly ten times more expensive than the stone it comes from. Between the 14th and 15th centuries, it was as expensive as gold in Europe.
scarlet
color shade of bright red
vermilion
thumb|The Venetian painter Titian used vermilion for dramatic effect. In the Assumption of the Virgin (1516–18), the vermilion robes draw the eye to the main characters. thumb|A Chinese "cinnabar red" carved lacquer box from the Qing dynasty (1736–1795), [[National Museum of China, Beijing]]
crimson
Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple.
lime
bright green color between blue and yellow
aquamarine
blue-green color
chartreuse
shade of yellow-green
amber
color term midway between the colors of gold and orange
cerulean
{| align="right" |+ Cerulean as a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel | |- | |- | |}
lavender
light shade of purple
buff
Yellow-brown colour
cerise
range of reddish pinks
viridian
thumb|right|Chromium(III) oxide sample thumb|Viridian (Pigment Green 18), left 3 smears; and Phthalocyanine Green (Pigment Green 7), right 3 smears Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed of a majority of green, followed by blue. The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s. Viridian takes its name from the Latin , meaning "green". The pigment was first prepared in mid-19th-century Paris and remains available from several US manufacturers as prepared artists' colors in
amethyst
color
eggplant
dark purple or brownish-purple color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants
plum
deep purple color
sage
grey-green colour