Chestnut (color)
Reddish-brown colour
Chestnut or castaneous is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious.
Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut.
Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.
01Etymology
The name chestnut derives from the colour of the nut of the chestnut tree. The first recorded use of chestnut as a colour term in English was in 1555. The colour maroon is also named after the chestnut (via French marron).
02Variations of chestnut
Deep chestnut
| Chestnut (Crayola) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #B94E48 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (185, 78, 72) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (3°, 61%, 73%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (47, 83, 14°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC-NBS descriptor | Dark reddish orange |
| B: Normalized to [0-255] (byte) | |
Deep chestnut is the colour called chestnut in Crayola crayons. This colour 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 colour of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon colour "Indian Red", originally formulated in 1958, to "Chestnut" in 1999. In reality, the colour Indian red has nothing to do with American Indians but is an iron oxide pigment the use of which is popular in India.
03Chestnut in nature
- The chestnut-coloured woodpecker
- The chestnut-backed chickadee
- The coat of the bongo
04Chestnut in human culture
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Chestnut03.jpg by fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, GFDL 1.2
- Parus rufescensDU1N028CA.JPG by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) artist, authors of the written work variously listed as Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899), Edward Henry Harriman, Clinton Hart Merriam, Public domain
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