Maroon (color)

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Maroon
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #800000
sRGBB (r, g, b) (128, 0, 0)
Source HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Maroon is a dark brownish to purplish red color.[2] Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it did not become a color-word in English until ca. 1790.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
  2. ^ maroon. Princeton WordNet.


Web colors black gray silver white red maroon purple fuchsia green lime olive yellow orange blue navy teal aqua
 
  Shades of red  
Alizarin Amaranth Burgundy Cardinal Carmine Cerise Chestnut Coral Red Crimson Dark Pink Falu red Fire engine red
                       
Girlsnberry Hollywood Cerise Magenta (Process) Maroon Mauve taupe Orange-Red Persian red Pink Persimmon Red Red-violet Rose
                       
Rust Puce Sangria Scarlet Terra cotta Venetian red Vermilion
             
  Shades of brown  
Auburn Bistre Brown Buff Burgundy Burnt sienna Burnt umber Copper Liver Mahogany Maroon Ochre
                       
Pale brown Raw Umber Russet Rust Sandy brown Seal brown Sepia Sienna Tan Wheat Zinnwaldite Fallow Bole
                         
Taupe Medium Taupe Pale Taupe Dark Khaki Khaki Light Khaki Sandy Taupe Ecru Beige
                 
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