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Pink is a pale red color that was first recorded in the 17th century to describe the pale red flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. The color pink itself is a combination of red and white. Other tints of pink may be combinations of rose and white, magenta and white, or orange and white. Pink can also be made by combining red and white (the more white that is added to red, the lighter the tint of the new color, pink).

Roseus is a 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). [1] The word is also used in the binomial names of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus.

Contents 1 Pale pink 2 Pastel pink 3 Web color pink 4 Web color lightpink (medium pink) 5 Nadeshiko pink 6 Web color hotpink 7 Web color deeppink 8 Dark pink 9 Bright pink 10 Shocking pink 11 Pink in gender 12 Pink in sexuality 13 Pink in human culture 14 See also 15 References 16 External links

Pale Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FADADD
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(250, 218, 221)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(354°, 13%, 98%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color pale pink, a light, desaturated shade of pink.

Pastel Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FFD1DC
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 209, 220)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(346°, 18%, 97%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color Pastel pink. In Western culture, pastel pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys. See the section Pink in gender, below.

Web color pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FFC0CB
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 192, 203)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(350°, 100%, 88%)
Source		X11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed web color pink.

This color is identical to the color Tamarisk, the color of the flowers of the Tamarisk plant.^{[citation needed]}

Web color lightpink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#ffb6c1
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 182, 193)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(351°, 100%, 86%)
Source		X11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color lightpink (no space).

However, if proper English usage regarding color nomenclature is to be maintained, since this color has a lower value than "pink", it should really be called medium pink if the web color "pink" (shown above) is accepted as the standard for pink. It comes in many different shades: such as hot pink and rose pink.

Nadeshiko Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#F6ADC6
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(246, 173, 198)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(339°, 30%, 96%)
Source		[2] Japanese Wikipedia
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color nadeshiko pink, called nadeshiko-iro (撫子色) in Japanese.

It is named after carnation (nadeshiko 撫子).

Web color hotpink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF69B4
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 105, 180)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(330°, 100%, 59%)
Source		X11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color hotpink (no space).

Web color deeppink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF1493
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 20, 147)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(328°, 100%, 54%)
Source		X11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color deeppink (no space).^[1]

Dark Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#E75480
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(231, 84, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(342°, 64%, 91%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color dark pink, a darker, desaturated shade of pink.

Bright Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF0080
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 0, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(330°, 100%, 50%)
Source		Hexcode Color Chart
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed a neutral shade of bright pink.

Shocking Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FC0FC0
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(252, 15, 192)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(315°, 94%, 99%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Shocking Pink, (also called neon pink) is bold and intense. Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli popularized this color in 1936, naming it shocking pink; it was the color of the box her perfume called Shocking Pink came in (the box was shaped like the torso of film star Mae West).

"This intense magenta was called shocking pink in the 1930s, hot pink in the 1950s, and kinky pink in the 1960s...[it] has appeared in the vanguard of more than one youth revolution...to some it sings, to others it screams" ^[2] It is sometimes used as a slang term to refer to the female genitalia. This color is now again called "shocking pink" to distinguish it from the web color hot pink (shown above). Its appearance is more akin to magenta than it is to traditional pink. This color has always been popular among the avant-garde.

NHRA drag racer, Shirley Muldowney was famous for driving a shocking pink dragster.

On its way into the German language, shocking pink lost the "shocking" and is called only "Pink", while the English color "pink" is referred to as "Rosa". Meanwhile in Portuguese one of its nomenclatures arrived intact becoming "cor-de-rosa choque" ("shocking pink") used more frequently in Brazil. It's also called "çingene pembesi" (Gypsy pink) in Turkish.

• In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s^[3]. From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because it was the more masculine and decided color while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color^[4][5]. Since the 1940s, the societal norm apparently inverted so that pink became appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century^[6].
• Though the color pink has sometimes been associated with gender stereotypes, some feminists have sought to reclaim it. For example, the Swedish radical feminist party Feminist Initiative uses pink as its color.

• Pink is the color of the Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon. Pink was chosen partially because it is so strongly associated with femininity. ^[7]

• It has been suggested that females prefer pink because of an evolutionary preference for reddish things like ripe fruits and healthy faces.^[8][9] This suggestion, however, has been criticized as unsubstantiated. ^[10]

• Whereas Jewish people were forced to wear the yellow stars of David under Nazi rule, and Roma people were forced to wear a black triangle, men imprisoned on accusations of homosexuality or same-sex sexual activity were forced to wear a pink triangle. Nowadays, it is often worn with pride. ^[11]

• A Dutch newsgroup about homosexuality is called nl.roze (roze being the Dutch word for pink), while in Britain, Pink News is a leading gay newspaper and online news service. There is a magazine called Pink for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) community which has different editions for various metropolitan areas. ^[12]

• In business, the pink pound or pink dollar refers to the spending power of the GLBT community. ^[13] Advertising agencies call the gay market the pink economy.

Alcoholism

• Seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for drunken hallucinations caused by delirium tremens. ^[14]

Art

• In 1993, artist Gioia Fonda created a conceptual piece in the form of a week long holiday called pink week. The intention of pink week is to liberate the color pink from all dogma and simply celebrate the color pink as a color.
• Bubblegum Pink is an installation by the artist duo Bigert & Bergstrom which "confronted [the viewer] with three different mental climates" ^[15] involving large amounts of pink. This mirrors the use of the color in American prisons to calm aggressive prisoners. It features a pink cell and a carpet worn by repetitive pacing. ^[16]
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Surrounded Islands wrapped wooded islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric. ^[17] Thomas Von Taschitzki has said that "the monochrome pink wrappings"..."form a counterpoint to the small green wooded islands". ^[18]
• Many of Franz West's aluminum sculptures were often painted a bright pink, for example Sexualitatssymbol (Symbol of Sexuality). West has said that the pink was intended as an "outcry to nature" and has alluded to phallic associations ^[19].

Calendars

• In Thailand, pink is associated with Tuesday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may wear pink on Tuesdays, and anyone born on a Tuesday may adopt pink as their color.

Cartography

• Pink (or red) is traditionally used on maps for territory ruled by the British Empire or for members of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Clothing

• Pink is a line of loungeware clothing carried by Victoria's Secret. ^[20]
• Pink shirts are now tremendously popular throughout Western Civilization, but were not always so. They were once seen as a camp or even homosexual colour. At the forefront of the "pink revolution" was a Mr. J. Lewis Ritchie LLB(hons) who is credited by many as the first to popularize the garment.

Chromatics

• Pink is used to describe a range of colors (shown above), from shades of red or orange to the more popularly used shades of pink that are shades of rose or magenta.

Cosmetics

• Mary Kay in 1968, Mary Kay Ash, purchased the first Pink Cadillac, which eventually became the trademark of her company.

Education

• At the Miraloma Elementary School in San Francisco, California, on 6 September 2007, the principal, Ron Machado, got a pink Mohawk haircut , as he had agreed to do if the students raised the school’s Academic Performance Index by at least 55 points. They raised it by 67 points. ^[21]

Film

• Pretty In Pink has the color named in the title
• In the film, Freaky Friday, Linsday Lohan's character is in a band called "Pink Slip"
• Softcore adult films in Japan are often called pink movies because the color cherry blossom pink (shown above) is associated in Japan with the vagina. ^[22]
• The Pink Panther is a popular cartoon character.
• Pink Cadillac was a 1989 movie starring Clint Eastwood.
• Pink Ladies was the name of Betty Rizzo's (Stockard Channing) gang in the film, Grease (film).

Finance

• Since 1893 the London Financial Times newspaper has used a distinctive salmon pink color for its newsprint, mainly as a way to distinguish itself from competitors. In other countries, the salmon press identifies economic newspapers or economics sections in "white" newspapers.

Gender

• The color pink is often used to represent women (See discussion above in section on Pink in gender).

Health

• In the pink is an English idiomatic expression for in good condition or in good health.
• Thailand's much-revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 79, left Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, wearing a pink blazer, shirt and tie, to the great confusion of HM's yellow-shirted subjects: as noted above under Calendars, pink is associated with Tuesday on the Thai solar calendar, while yellow is associated with Monday, the day on which HM was born. The English phrase in the pink is largely unknown. Coverage by the Bangkok Post noted that "Thais believe that pink is an auspicious colour for those who were born in the Year of the Rabbit ...[and] the King..."was born under that sign." Whatever the reason for HM's choice, it has caused an upsurge in the sale of pink shirts (published on November 9, 2007).

Literature

• In Spanish, a novela rosa ("pink novel") is a sentimental novel marketed to women.

Music

• P!nk is an American singer-songwriter whose real name is Alecia Moore. ^[23]
• "Pink" is a song by Aerosmith.
• Under The Pink is an album by Tori Amos.
• Pink Floyd, a British progressive rock band.
• Pink Fairies, a British hard rock band; one of the founding members, Twink released a solo album called Think Pink.
• "Think Pink!" is a song from Funny Face.
• Pink Cadillac (song) is a 1984 humorous rockabilly song by Bruce Springsteen
• Elvis Presley owned what is the most famous Pink Cadillac in the world
• Japanese stoner/drone band Boris have a 2005 album called Pink.
• Pink Lady was a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto ("Mie") and Keiko Masuda ("Kei").
• Pinky was a Japanese punk rock performer in the early 1990s.
• Shocking Blue – whose name may be a gender-reversing play on shocking pink – was a Dutch rock band that was founded in the late 1960s.
• The Pink Spiders, an American power pop band.

Parapsychology

• It has been asserted that people with pink auras are those who are into in romantic relationships.^[24]

Politics

• Pink, being a 'watered-down' red, is sometimes used in a derogatory way to describe a person with mild communist or socialist beliefs (see Pinko).
• In maps of political parties in Portugal, pink is used to represent the Socialist Party.
• The Pink House is the residence of the President of Argentina.
• Code Pink is an anti-war organization co-founded in 2002 by anti-corporate globalization activist Medea Benjamin of the NGO Global Exchange in San Francisco. ^[25]
• The term pink revolution may be used to refer to the overthrow of President Askar Akayev and his government in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan after the parliamentary elections of February 27 and of March 13, 2005, although it is more commonly called the tulip revolution.

Recreation

• "Paint the Town Pink" a phrase that arose in the 1950s reflecting its influence on fashion and design and the popularity of pastel colors.
• "Moshe is pink" a phrase that grew in popularity in the mid 2000s amongst the South African homosexual community.

Religion

• In Catholicism, pink (called rose by the Catholic Church) symbolizes joy and happiness. It is used for the Third Sunday of Advent and the Fourth Sunday of Lent to mark the halfway point in these seasons of penance. However, in some Protestant denominations, the pink candle is sometimes lit on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Love.
• Pink is the color most associated with Indian spirtual leader Meher Baba, who often were pink coats to please his closest female follower, Mehera Irani, and today pink remains an important color, symbolizing love, to Baba's followers.

Sexuality

• The color pink is often used to represent homosexuality (See discussion above in section on Pink in sexuality).
• In Japan the color Cherry Blossom Pink is associated with a woman's vagina, and therefore, in Japan, softcore pornographic films are called pink movies. ^[26]
• In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a pink bandana means that one is into the fetish of playing with dildos. Wearing a dark pink bandana means that one is into tit torture.^[27]

Sonics

• Pink noise (sample (help·info)), also known as 1/f noise, is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency.

Sports

• Pink can mean the scarlet coat worn in fox hunting (a.k.a. "riding to hounds"). One legend about the origin of this meaning refers to a tailor named Pink (or Pinke, or Pinque).
• The leader in the Giro d'Italia cycle race wears pink.
• The University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium visitors' locker room is painted pink. The decor has sparked controversy, perceived by some people as suggesting sexism and homophobia. ^[28]

Television

• In the TV series Power Rangers and its Japanese counterpart, Super Sentai, pink is a ranger color. The pink rangers are usually the airheaded, though the Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy and Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive, pink rangers are the smart ones of the team. They are always female, and are interchangeable with white.

Transportation Planning (Rapid Transit)

• The Chicago Transit Authority recently debuted the Pink Line light rail service.
• In the London Underground system, Hammersmith & City Line, running from Hammersmith to Barking is assigned the color pink on the tube map.

Video Games

• In the Sonic the Hedgehog series Amy Rose is depicted as a pink hedgehog and often referred to as "Pinky".
• In the Sonic the Hedgehog series Rouge the Bat is often seen wearing pink embellishments on her clothing and lip gloss.
• In Final Fantasy X the character Yuna's design was based around blue, white, and pink and carried over to Final Fantasy X-2 which represented her girlish side.
• Kingdom Hearts main character Kairi's secondary design for Kingdom Hearts 2 was composed primarily of pink.
• Aerith from Final Fantasy 7 is almost always displayed in a pink dress with dark pink/red complimentary colors which represent her innocence and heart despite growing up in the dark city of Midgar.
• Elena from Threads of Fate is the only character to have pink hair.

• List of colors
• Hollywood Cerise
• Fuchsia Pink
• Magenta
• Rose
• The singer P!nk
• Pink noise
• Pink Panther

• Google Answers – Pink, Why Feminine?
• All About The color Pink
• The History of Color - "Paint the Town Pink"
• a la pink ~ everything pink
• Pink Week: when Pink means Pink
• Pink Junction ~ a blog of pink things

					Shades of pink
Pink	Carnation pink	Fuchsia	Magenta	Salmon Pink	Deep Pink	Hollywood Cerise	Hot Pink	Medium Pink	Shocking Pink	Cherry Blossom Pink	Coral Pink
French Rose	Lavender Pink	Persian Rose	Carmine Pink	Cerise Pink	Fuchsia Pink	Japanese Pink	Persian Pink	Dark Pink	Hot Magenta	Lavender Rose	Rose
Thulian Pink	Amaranth	Light Thulian Pink	Puce	Rose Pink	Tea Rose	Amaranth Pink	Brink Pink	Cerise	Deep Carmine Pink	Mountbatten pink	Ultra Pink

					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
Ruby	Rust	Puce	Sangria	Scarlet	Terra cotta	Venetian red	Vermilion