Amaranth (#E52B50)
Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower (the color normally considered amaranth), but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.
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Hex triplet | #E52B50 | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (229, 43, 80) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (345°, 78%, 64%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color amaranth is displayed at right. This color is also called amaranth red to distinguish it from the varying colors of other varieties of the amaranth flower.
This color is similar to printer's magenta (pigment magenta) (Hex Code #FF0090) (but a lot more reddish). It is the color of the flower of those amaranth plants that have amaranth red colored flowers.
The first recorded use of amaranth as a color name in
English
was in 1690. [1]
The name amaranth comes from the Greek a (not) + marainean (to waste away), i.e., a flower that never died that was believed to grow on Mount Olympus.
Pale Amaranth Pink | ||
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Hex triplet | #DDBEC3 | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (221, 190, 195) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (345°, 37%, 99
]%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color pale amaranth pink is displayed at right. This is the color of pale pink amaranth flowers.
Amaranth Pink | ||
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Hex triplet | #F19CBB | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (241, 156, 187) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (345°, 47%, 92%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color amaranth pink is displayed at right. This is the color of pink amaranth flowers.
The first recorded use of amaranth pink as a color name
in English
was in 1905. [2]
Radical Red | ||
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Hex triplet | #FF355E | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 53, 94) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (345°, 84%, 84%) |
Source | Crayola | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The Crayola crayon color radical red is displayed at right.
This color, which may also be called bright amaranth
pink, was formulated by Crayola in 1990.
Amaranth Magenta | ||
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Hex triplet | #ED3CCA | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (237, 60, 202) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (304°, 97%, 74%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color amaranth magenta is displayed at
right. This is the color of magenta amaranth flowers.
Amaranth Cerise | ||
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Hex triplet | #CD2682 | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (205, 38, 130) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (354°, 77%, 82%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color amaranth cerise is displayed at
right. This is the color of cerise amaranth flowers.
Amaranth Purple | ||
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Hex triplet | #AB274F | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (171, 39, 79) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (285°, 37%, 44%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color amaranth purple is displayed at right. This is the purple color of purple amaranth flowers.
The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color
name in English was in 1912. [3]
Amaranth Deep Purple | ||
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Hex triplet | #9F2B68 | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (159, 43, 104) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (285°, 34%, 40%) |
Source | [Unsourced] | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color amaranth deep purple is displayed at
right. This is the deep purple color of some amaranth flowers.
Web page showing the various colors of amaranth flowers (sources of the colors shown above, except deep purple amaranth)--next to pink amaranth flower, click to go to other colors of amaranth flowers: cerise amaranth flowers (mislabeled carmine), pale pink amaranth flowers (called Italian pink), magenta amaranth flowers (mislabeled purple), and amaranth red amaranth flowers.]
Picture of purple amaranth flower
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Alizarin | Amaranth | American Rose | Burnt sienna | Burgundy | Candy apple red | Cardinal | Carmine | Carnelian | Cerise |
Chestnut | Coquelicot | Coral red | Crimson | Dark pink | Dogwood rose | Falu red | Fire engine red | Flame | Fuchsia |
Lava | Lust | Magenta | Maroon | Mauve | Mauve taupe | Orange-red | OU Crimson Red | Persian red | Persimmon |
Pink | Puce | Raspberry | Red | Red-violet | Rose | Rose madder | Rosewood | Rosso corsa | Ruby |
Rufous | Rust | Sangria | Scarlet | Terra cotta | Tuscan red | Upsdell red | UP Maroon | Venetian red | Vermilion |
The samples shown above are representative only. |
This box shows the color amaranth. |
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Amaranth is a rose-red color that is the color of the flower of the amaranth plant.
The first recorded use of amaranth as a color name in English was in 1690. [1]
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The name amaranth comes from the Greek a (not) + marainean (to waste away), i.e., a flower that never died that was believed to grow on Mount Olympus.
Amaranth flowers may come in many different colors:
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