Chestnut (color)

Chestnut (#CD5C5C)

Chestnut, also known as Indian red, is a medium brownish shade of red.

The color chestnut is named after the nut of the chestnut tree.

When the color is called Indian red, it is named after the red laterite soil found in India. It is thus an earth tone as well as a red. It is composed of naturally occurring iron oxides. Other shades of iron oxides include Venetian Red and English Red.

1 Chestnut
2 Etymology
3 Deep chestnut
4 Dark chestnut
5 Chestnut in human culture
6 References
7 See also

Chestnut

Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CD5C5C
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(205, 92, 92)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 55%, 80%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color chestnut, also known as the web color Indian red.

Chestnuts can be found on the ground around chestnut trees.

Etymology

The name Chestnut derives from the color of the nut of the Chestnut tree. The first recorded use of chestnut as a color term in English was in 1555. ^[1]

The name Indian red derives from the red laterite soil found in India, which is composed of naturally occurring iron oxides. The first recorded use of Indian red as a color term in English was in 1792. ^[2]

Deep chestnut

Deep Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#B94E48
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(185, 78, 72)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 50%, 75%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color deep chestnut, also known as deep Indian red. This is the color called chestnut in Crayola crayons. This color was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup.

At the request of educators worried that children (mistakenly) believed the name represented the skin color of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon color Indian Red to Chestnut in 1999.^[3]

Dark chestnut

Dark Chestnut
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#986960
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(152, 105, 96)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(10°, 37%, 60%)
Source		^[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color dark chestnut.

Chestnut in human culture

Animal husbandry

Horses with chestnut colored coats are a popular breed of horses.

References

^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 197
^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 592
^ Crayon Chronology