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Chestnut (#CD5C5C)

Chestnut, also known as Indian red, is a color, a medium brownish shade of red, and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. As Indian red, it is named after the red laterite soil found in India. It is thus an earth tone as well as a red. It is composed of naturally occurring iron oxides. Other shades of iron oxides include Venetian Red and English Red. It is used as an adjective in the names of several birds to describe their plumage.

1 Chestnut
2 Etymology
3 Deep chestnut
4 Dark chestnut
5 Chestnut in human culture
6 References
7 See also

Chestnut

Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`CD5C5C`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(205, 92, 92)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 55%, 80%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color chestnut, also known as the web color Indian red.

Chestnuts can be found on the ground around chestnut trees.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Etymology

The name Chestnut derives from the color of the nut of the Chestnut tree. The first recorded use of chestnut as a color term in English was in 1555.^[1]

The name Indian red derives from the red laterite soil found in India, which is composed of naturally occurring iron oxides. The first recorded use of Indian red as a color term in English was in 1792.^[2]

Deep chestnut

Deep Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`B94E48`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(185, 78, 72)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 50%, 75%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color deep chestnut, also known as deep Indian red. This is the color called chestnut in Crayola crayons. This color was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup.

At the request of educators worried that children (mistakenly) believed the name represented the skin color of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon color Indian Red to Chestnut in 1999.^[3]

Dark chestnut

Dark Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`986960`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(152, 105, 96)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(10°, 37%, 60%)
Source		^[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color dark chestnut.

Chestnut in human culture

Animal husbandry

Horses with chestnut colored coats are common.

References

^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 197
^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 592
^ Crayon Chronology

v • d • e Shades of red
Alizarin	Amaranth	Burgundy	Cardinal	Carmine	Carnelian	Cerise	Chestnut	Coral red	Crimson

Dark pink	Falu red	Fire engine red	Fuchsia	Magenta	Maroon	Mauve taupe	Orange-red	Persian red	Pink

Persimmon	Red	Red-violet	Rose	Rose madder	Ruby	Rust	Puce	Sangria	Scarlet

Terra cotta	Upsdell red	Venetian red	Vermilion

The samples shown above are representative only.

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