Pink (color)

Pink (Rose)

Color coordinates

Hex triplet

#FFC0CB

sRGB^B (r, g, b)

(255, 192, 203)

CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)

(0, 20, 14, 0)

HSV (h, s, v)

(350°, 25%, 100%)

Source

HTML/CSS

B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Pink is a pale red color that is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity and the romantic. It is associated with innocence when combined with white, but associated with eroticism and seduction when combined with violet or black.

The color pink takes its name from the flowers called pinks, members of the genus Dianthus.

In most European languages, pink is called rose or rosa, after the rose flower.

Cherry blossoms in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. The Japanese language has different words for the pink of cherry blossoms (sakura-iro), and peach blossoms (momo-iro). Recently the word pinku has also become popular.

Pink is often associated with the exotic. Greater flamingoes in flight over Pocharam Lake in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Rhodochrosite is one of the many kinds of pink gemstones.

Pink is sometimes associated with extravagance and a wish to be noticed. A 1963 pink Cadillac.

Pink and white together symbolize youth, tenderness and innocence.

The color pink is named after the flowers,pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus, and derives from the frilled edge of the flowers. The verb "to pink" dates from the 14th century and means "to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern" (possibly from German pinken, "to peck").

While the word "pink" was first used as a noun to refer to a color in the 17th century, the verb "pink" continues to be reflected today as the name of hand-held scissors that cut a zig-zagged line to prevent fraying that are referred to as pinking shears.

The color pink has been described in literature since ancient times. In the Odyssey, written in approximately 800BCE, Homer wrote "Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn appeared..." Roman poets also described the color. is the Latin word meaning "rosy" or "pink." Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura).

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