Mulberry (color)

Mulberry
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #C54B8C
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (197, 75, 140)
HSV       (h, s, v) (285°, 67%, 70%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color mulberry is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie. This was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 2003.

The first recorded use of mulberry as a color name in English was in 1776.[1]

It has some similarities with the color raspberry, a shade of red also called mulberry in some countries of Latin America.

See also

References

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mulberry: Plate 48 Color Sample E9
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