Amaranth (color)
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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.
Description
The color amaranth is displayed adjacent. This color is also called amaranth red to distinguish it from the varying colors of other varieties of the amaranth flower.
The color amaranth is similar to printer's magenta (pigment magenta), but redder. 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]
Etymology
The name amaranth comes from the Greek a (not) + marainean (to waste away), i.e., a flower believed to grow on Mount Olympus which never died.
Variations
Pink
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The color amaranth pink is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of pink amaranth flowers.[2]
The first recorded use of amaranth pink as a color name in English was in 1905.[3]
Bright
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This color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism for displaying fluorescence on a computer screen.
Purple
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The color amaranth purple is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of purple amaranth flowers.[4] The common name purple aramanth applies to two species: Amaranthus blitum and Amaranthus cruentus.
The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color name in English was in 1912.[5]
Deep
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Amaranth deep purple is the tone of amaranth that is called amaranth in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color.
Alizarin
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Alizarin is the tone of amaranth that is called alizarin in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color.
See also
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References
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- ↑ Maerz and Paul (1930). A Dictionary of Color New York: McGraw Hill. p. 189; Color Sample of Amaranth: Page 127 Plate 53 Color Sample L3 (Note: The color sample called Amaranth in A Dictionary of Color is not the Amaranth Red color shown above that is normally considered Amaranth today, but is the color shown above as Amaranth Deep Purple.)
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- ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw Hill Page 189; Color Sample of Amaranth Pink: Page 121 Plate 49 Color Sample D8
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- ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw Hill Page 189; Color Sample of Amaranth Purple: Page 129 Plate 53 Color Sample L3
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