| Tomato | ||
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| Hex triplet | #FF6347 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 99, 71) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (15°, 75%, 50%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The web color tomato is a medium reddish-orange color that is the color of actual supermarket tomatoes. Many vine-ripened tomatoes are a bit redder. The color of tomato soup is slightly less saturated. The color tomato is displayed at right.
The first recorded use of tomato as a color name in English was in 1891. [1]
When the X11 web colors were invented in the mid-1990s, the color tomato was made into one of the web colors.
References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Color Sample of Tomato: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample I12
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| Amber | Apricot | Carrot orange | Champagne | Coral | Brown | Burnt orange | Dark salmon | ECE/SAE Amber | Gamboge |
| International orange | Mahogany | Orange | Orange (web) | Orange-red | Orange peel | Peach | Peach-orange | Peach-yellow | Persimmon |
| Pink-orange | Portland Orange | Pumpkin | Rust | Safety orange | Salmon | Tangerine | Tenné (Tawny) | Tomato | Vermilion |
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