Maroon (color)

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Maroon
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Hex triplet		#800000
sRGB^B	(r, g, b)	(128, 0, 0)
Source		HTML/CSS^[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Maroon is a color related to dark red. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ca. 1791.

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See studies by C. Robinson (1969) and R. Price (1976, 1979).

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^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords

Web colors	black	silver	gray	white	red	maroon	purple	fuchsia	green	lime	olive	yellow	orange	blue	navy	teal	aqua
Web colors

					Shades of red
Alizarin	Amaranth	Burgundy	Cardinal	Carmine	Cerise	Chestnut	Coral Red	Crimson	Dark Pink	Falu red	Fire engine red

Fuchsia	Girlsnberry	Hollywood Cerise	Magenta	Maroon	Mauve	Persian red	Pink	Pomegranate	Red	Red-violet	Rose

Rust	Puce	Sangria	Scarlet	Shocking Pink	Terra cotta	Venetian red	Vermilion

					Shades of brown
Auburn	Bistre	Brown	Buff	Burgundy	Burnt sienna	Burnt umber	Copper	Liver	Mahogany	Maroon	Ochre

Pale brown	Raw Umber	Russet	Rust	Sandy brown	Seal brown	Sepia	Tan	Wheat	Zinnwaldite	Fallow	Bole

Taupe	Medium Taupe	Pale Taupe	Dark Khaki	Khaki	Light Khaki	Sandy Taupe	Ecru	Beige

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