Maroon (color)
| Color Coordinates | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hex triplet | #800000 | |
| RGB | (r, g, b) | (128, 0, 0) |
| CMYK | (c, m, y, k) N | (0, 255, 255, 127) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (0°, 100%, 50%) |
| N: Normalised to [ 0–255 ] (changing to [0–100]) | ||
Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ca. 1791.
See also
| Web colors | black | silver | gray | white | red | maroon | purple | fuchsia | green | lime | olive | yellow | orange | blue | navy | teal | aqua |
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