Chestnut (color)

Chestnut

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#954535
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(149, 69, 53)
HSV (h, s, v)	(10°, 64%, 58%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(39, 63, 19°)
Source	Maerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Chestnut or castaneous^[1] 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.^[2]

Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut.^{[citation needed]}

Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.

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Etymology

Chestnuts can be found on the ground around chestnut trees.

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.^[3] The color maroon is also named after the chestnut (via French marron).

Variations of chestnut

Deep chestnut

Chestnut (Crayola)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#B94E48
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(185, 78, 72)
HSV (h, s, v)	(3°, 61%, 73%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(47, 83, 14°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Dark reddish orange
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Deep chestnut is the color 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.^[4] 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.

Chestnut in nature

Chestnut in human culture

Animal husbandry

Chestnut is a coat colour of horses.

Cosmetology

Brown chestnut hair is a human hair colour.

References

^ Ian Paterson. A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour. Thorogood Publishing Ltd, 2003
^ "Wordnik". Wordnik.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 197
^ "Explore Colors". crayola.com. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

Shades of brown

Auburn	Almond	Beaver	Beige	Bistre	Black bean	Black olive	Bole	Bone	Bronze

Brown	Brown sugar	Buff	Burgundy	Burnt sienna	Burnt umber	Camel	Caput mortuum	Caramel	Chamoisee

Chestnut	Chocolate	Citron	Cocoa Brown	Coffee	Copper	Cordovan	Coyote	Desert sand	Drab dark brown

Dun	Earth yellow	Ecru	Fallow	Fawn	Field drab	Fulvous	Golden brown	Goldenrod	Harvest gold

Khaki	Kobicha	Lion	Liver	Mahogany	Maroon	Ochre	Raw umber	Red-brown	Redwood

Rufous	Russet	Rust	Sand	Sandy brown	Satin sheen gold	Seal brown	Sepia	Sienna	Sinopia

Tan	Taupe	Tawny	Titian Red	Umber	Van Dyke	Walnut brown	Wenge	Wheat

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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