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March 22, 2006 9:30 PM

QuickieFilter! What color is this? Thanks!

Thank you!

posted by arrhn to Grab Bag (69 answers total)

RGB: 151 64 99

HTML: #974063
posted by mathowie at 9:32 PM on March 22, 2006

#974063
posted by Jairus at 9:33 PM on March 22, 2006

In the future, you can use colorzilla in firefox to answer questions like this. It's a and feature.
posted by drezdn at 9:36 PM on March 22, 2006

Exactly halfway between red and magenta?
posted by phyle at 9:37 PM on March 22, 2006

I thought this was a question about what people "see" (e.g. mauve) rather than about what the RGB values are, but I guess I was wrong?
posted by vacapinta at 9:43 PM on March 22, 2006

Well, if I were down at the Sherwin-Williams paint store, I'd ask for raspberry or raspberry-red!
posted by bim at 9:49 PM on March 22, 2006

dark rose.
posted by notsnot at 9:50 PM on March 22, 2006

I'd call it fuschia.
posted by Lynsey at 9:51 PM on March 22, 2006

Magenta. ish.
posted by LarryC at 9:52 PM on March 22, 2006

Rose.
posted by fshgrl at 9:53 PM on March 22, 2006

Mauve.
posted by limeonaire at 9:58 PM on March 22, 2006

I'd call it plum, although html "plum" is much lighter:

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posted by tiny purple fishes at 10:01 PM on March 22, 2006

lipstick
posted by bigmusic at 10:07 PM on March 22, 2006

Maroon.
posted by frogan at 10:07 PM on March 22, 2006

C 39% M 86% Y 42% K15%

It's PMS 221'ish.
posted by nathan_teske at 10:12 PM on March 22, 2006

Fuchsia.
posted by Gator at 10:12 PM on March 22, 2006

(Disclaimer: I've been looking at paint chips lately)
Wild Mulberry or Cloudy Shiraz
posted by rob511 at 10:18 PM on March 22, 2006

I'd call it magenta.

Then I'd quickly start talking about sports....
posted by pompomtom at 10:19 PM on March 22, 2006

Strong Reddish Purple? (scroll down)
posted by Alison at 10:22 PM on March 22, 2006

Puce!
posted by idiotfactory at 10:53 PM on March 22, 2006

I'd call it mauve.
posted by angeline at 10:53 PM on March 22, 2006

Or maybe dark magenta...dark mauve?
posted by limeonaire at 10:56 PM on March 22, 2006

dusty rose
posted by pointilist at 11:38 PM on March 22, 2006

Magenta. Or maybe Riff Raff.
posted by scody at 11:43 PM on March 22, 2006

Raspberry sherbet.
posted by tula at 11:46 PM on March 22, 2006

I'd vote for mauve too.
posted by aneel at 12:00 AM on March 23, 2006

Vote for magenta.
posted by madman at 12:16 AM on March 23, 2006

fuchsia or magenta.
posted by litlnemo at 12:33 AM on March 23, 2006

magenta
posted by piratebowling at 12:44 AM on March 23, 2006

Dark magenta/maroon.
posted by Ryvar at 2:00 AM on March 23, 2006

Puce.
posted by Tarrama at 3:27 AM on March 23, 2006

It's purple.
posted by reklaw at 3:35 AM on March 23, 2006

Totally magenta.
posted by beerbajay at 3:45 AM on March 23, 2006

Red.
posted by klarck at 4:18 AM on March 23, 2006

Magenta.

OMG, do I work with you? I've been working all week on names for a corporate palette. Not as much fun as I thought.

(An aside to the mauve-voters: mauve is a very specific color and is lighter and greyer and bluer than the sample.)
posted by mimi at 4:56 AM on March 23, 2006

puce.
posted by lowlife at 5:15 AM on March 23, 2006

Can't tell surrounded by all that green.

(Seriously -- your brain sees the whole image, and will shift colors based on what is around them.)
posted by eriko at 5:29 AM on March 23, 2006

I'd agree with the Dark Rose crowd.
posted by richardhay at 5:34 AM on March 23, 2006

Wow, it looks completely different if you save the image and view it fullscreen without the green. I was going to say fuschia until I did that, but:

puce.
posted by nowonmai at 6:00 AM on March 23, 2006

Plum. Though to be honest, if it's not in the 8 crayon box of crayola's I was issued in kindergarten it's not a real colour.
posted by substrate at 6:07 AM on March 23, 2006

Orchid?
posted by amber_dale at 6:11 AM on March 23, 2006

I'd say cranberry.
posted by konolia at 6:22 AM on March 23, 2006

I'm voting mulberry.
posted by headspace at 6:32 AM on March 23, 2006

PANTONE 689
posted by blue_beetle at 6:44 AM on March 23, 2006

Raspberry. Magenta and fuschia are brighter.
posted by dame at 6:54 AM on March 23, 2006

Blue beetle's right. It's a darkish purple, but it's most definitely not mauve, fuchsia, magenta (not at all), maroon or puce (though puce comes the closest).
posted by klangklangston at 7:03 AM on March 23, 2006

Raspberry.
posted by ceri richard at 7:09 AM on March 23, 2006

Heliotrope. It's way too dark to be mauve.
posted by zadcat at 7:13 AM on March 23, 2006

Plum.
posted by Melinika at 7:24 AM on March 23, 2006

Purple.
posted by jikel_morten at 7:36 AM on March 23, 2006

Color blind here, so, gray.
posted by mmcg at 7:43 AM on March 23, 2006

Pantone #234C.
posted by Alpenglow at 7:51 AM on March 23, 2006

looks like puce to me
posted by closetgeekshow at 8:03 AM on March 23, 2006

What you call it depends on what you're using the color for. If you're designing a web page, call it by a hexadecimal number. If you designing womens' blouses, call it "rouge". If you're painting a car, call it "wine." The possibilities go on and on...
posted by Robert Angelo at 8:10 AM on March 23, 2006

On second glance, scratch "wine" in favor of "sangria"...
posted by Robert Angelo at 8:12 AM on March 23, 2006

It's got a lot of white in it (or put another way, it's not very "pure" which corresponds to saturation). So it's not magenta. I go with Rose / rouge / wine type colors.
posted by zpousman at 9:00 AM on March 23, 2006

Just so you all know, unless your monitors are color calibrated you're all seeing slightly diffrent colors.
posted by delmoi at 9:00 AM on March 23, 2006

It is:
hex 0634097
RGB 151,64,99
CMYK 0,34,21,41
HSV 335,58,59
posted by soplerfo at 9:18 AM on March 23, 2006

...you're all seeing slightly diffrent colors.

Also, some of us, me for instance, are viewing AskMe with plain white backgrounds instead of the standard green and the color contrast makes a huge difference. I didn't understand why people were consistently saying colors in the red end of the spectrum like maroon, magenta, rose, and fuchsia. It looks much more purple to me (which is why I said plum above). So I looked at the image on AskMe's green background and, yup, it looks much much redder.
posted by tiny purple fishes at 10:05 AM on March 23, 2006

My color picker says it's

#944163

R: 148 G:65 B:99

Funny how different people get different results.
posted by Kimberly at 11:19 AM on March 23, 2006

cold plum & condensation
purple shawl
bursting liver
posted by pracowity at 11:32 AM on March 23, 2006

I vote dark mauve. (Pronouced "mohv". Also, an interesting book.)
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 11:50 AM on March 23, 2006

echoing tiny purple fishes, at home on my mac I'd call it raspberry, but on a PC at work (with the plain white background) I'd call it plum.
posted by ambrosia at 12:10 PM on March 23, 2006

Grape!
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:19 PM on March 23, 2006

Eggplant! (Seriously. I'm suprised no one has said this yet.)
posted by thebabelfish at 4:02 PM on March 23, 2006

OK, everybody can go home now.


(arrhn's original swatch in corner)

It's Black Cherry (duh)! Specifically, this is a bing cherry blossom. (Link)
posted by rob511 at 9:38 PM on March 23, 2006

rob511, it's actually a hemerocallis (daylilly) blossom named Black Cherry Binge.

I would call that color "raspberry".
posted by oneirodynia at 5:37 PM on March 24, 2006

I would have said a non-obnoxious version of fuschia but I opened it in PSP. Final vote: dark pink.

Magenta? Mauve? Eggplant? What, are y'all high?!
posted by deborah at 10:31 PM on March 24, 2006

I was going to say maroon then I realised I wearing yellow-tinted glasses. I'm interested why you want to know though!
posted by 999 at 10:36 AM on March 26, 2006