Peach (color)
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Peach is a color that combines pink and orange colors. This color is named for the pale color of the peach fruit. Like the color apricot, the color called peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color apricot) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design. Peach can also be described as pale orange.
Peach (#FFE5B4)
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| Hex triplet | #FFE5B4 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (255, 229, 180) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (40°, 29%, 100%) |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the color peach.
This shade of peach approximates the color of the interior flesh of that variety of peaches known as white peaches.
The first recorded use of peach as a color name in English was in 1588. [1]
[edit] Etymology of peach
The etymology of the color peach (and the fruit): the word comes from the Middle English peche, derived from Middle French, in turn derived from Latin persica, i.e., the fruit from Persia. In actuality, the ultimate origin of the peach fruit was from China.