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Unit 8 · Designer's vocabulary

Cerise

HEX

#DE3163

RGB

222 49 99

HSL

343° 72% 53%

CMYK

0 78 55 13

Cerise or Crimson?

Pinker than crimson.

Compare: Crimson

Language

Cerise is French for cherry. English borrowed it as a color in the mid-1800s: the Oxford English Dictionary's first example is from The Times in 1858, though a book of crochet patterns used it in 1845.

Kin

• Raspberry: Another red named after a fruit
• Ecru: Another French word English kept as a color: écru, raw

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Cerise (color)', citing the OED

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