Home  

Random  

Nearby  



Log in  



Settings  



Donate  



About Wikipedia  

Disclaimers  



Wikipedia





Lava (color)





Article  

Talk  



Language  

Watch  

Edit  





Lava
#CF1020

Lava is a color that is a shade of red. It is named after the color of volcanic lava.

33 ft (10 m) high fountain of lava, Hawaii, United States

This is the color (color #CF1020, shown at right) of fresh lava pouring out of a volcano.

The first recorded use of lava as a color name in English was in 1891.[1]

Variations of lava

edit

Dark lava

edit
 
Lava that has congealed into igneous rockatCraters of the Moon National MonumentinIdaho, United States
Lava (ISCC-NBS)
 
      Color coordinates
Hex triplet#483C32
sRGBB (r, g, b)(72, 60, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)(27°, 31%, 28%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(26, 11, 47°)
SourceISCC-NBS (color sample #81)
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark grayish yellowish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color dark lava is the color of lava that has cooled and begun to congeal into igneous rock.

The normalized color coordinates for dark lava are identical to taupe, which came into use as a color name in English in the early 19th century;[2]

References

edit
  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197; Color Sample of Lava: Page 39 Plate 8 Color Sample E7.
  • ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Discussion of Color Taupe, Page 183; Color Sample of Taupe: Page 55 Plate 16 Color Sample A6
  • See also

    edit

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lava_(color)&oldid=1143880924"
     



    Last edited on 10 March 2023, at 13:40  





    Languages

     


    Afrikaans

    Español
    Bahasa Indonesia
    Jawa
     

    Wikipedia


    This page was last edited on 10 March 2023, at 13:40 (UTC).

    Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Terms of Use

    Desktop