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Cerise (color) |
Cerise (pronounced /səˈriːs/ or /səˈriːz/ in English and IPA: [səˈʀiz] in French) is a deep to vivid purplish red. There are various shades of cerise.
Cerise (#DE3163)
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| Hex triplet | #DE3163 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (222, 49, 99) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (343°, 78%, 87%) |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color cerise.
According to Maerz and Paul in their Dictionary of Color, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in 1858.[1] However, it was used at least as early as 1846 in a book of crochet patterns.[2]
The cerise color name comes from the French word meaning cherry. The word "cherry" itself comes from the Norman cherise.
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| Hex triplet | #EC3B83 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (236, 59, 131) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (343°, 70%, 89%) |
| Source | Internet | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color cerise pink.
The source of this color is a pair of children's shoes labeled cerise pink pictured at the following website, found by typing "cerise pink" into Google images: [1]
| Vivid Cerise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #DA1D81 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (218, 29, 129) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (337°, 94%, 89%) |
| Source | Internet | |
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At right is displayed the color vivid cerise.
The source of this color is the following website that sells rabbit skins dyed in various colors (see under fluorescent cerise): [2]
| Amaranth Cerise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #CD2682 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (205, 38, 130) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (354°, 77%, 82%) |
| Source | Internet | |
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The color amaranth cerise is displayed at right. This is the color of cerise amaranth flowers.
Note: On the website that is the source of this color, it is mislabeled as "carmine" (a redder color than cerise)--click to right of pink flower where it says "carmine" to see source of color: [3]
| Deep Cerise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #DA3287 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (218, 50, 135) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (317°, 57%, 62%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
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Displayed at right is the color deep cerise. This is the color called cerise in Crayola crayons (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).
This color approximates the color of the interior of a Bing cherry close to the stone (the exterior of Bing cherry is much darker).
The color name cerise has been in use for this color since 1993 by Crayola.
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| Hex triplet | #F400A1 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (244, 0, 161) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (320°, 100%, 96%) |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
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In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had before that, since 1922, been known simply as Hollywood. [3]
Another name for this color is fashion fuchsia.
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