Pink

Pink is a color often made by mixing red and white. It can be described as a light red, but it is more accurately a bright, undersaturated red. more...

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Pink can also be used to describe other colors, including some that are actually shades of magenta rather than red, such as fuchsia pink, Hollywood cerise and shocking pink. Some shades of pink such as Persian pink are actually shades of rose. Some shades of pink are actually shades of orange, such as coral pink. There are many different shades of pink. Thus, the term Pink may be used in general to describe a wide range of light orange, light red, light rose, and light magenta colors.

The use of the word "Pink" for colour first occurred in the 17th century to describe the light red flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus.

Pale Pink

At right is displayed the color Pale Pink, a light, desaturated shade of pink.

Pastel Pink

At right is displayed the color Pastel Pink. Pastel Pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is used to symbolize baby boys.

At one point pink was considered more of a boy's color, (as a watered-down red, which is a fierce color) and blue was more for girls. The associate of pink with bold, dramatic red clearly affected its use for boys. An American newspaper in 1914 advised mothers, "If you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention."

"There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."

Web color pink

At right is displayed the web color pink.

This color is identical to the color Tamarisk, the color of the flowers of the Tamarisk plant.

Web color lightpink (Medium Pink)

At right is displayed the web color lightpink (no space)

However, if proper English usage regarding color nomenclature is to maintained, since this color is more saturated than "pink", it should really be called medium pink if the web color "pink" (shown above) is accepted as the standard for pink.

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