Cerise (color)

For other uses, see Cerise (disambiguation).
Cerise
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #DE3163
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (222, 49, 99)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (7, 95, 46, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (343°, 78%, 87%)
Source Maerz and Paul[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Cerise (/səˈriːs/ or /səˈriːz/; French pronunciation: ​[səˈʁiz]) is a deep to vivid reddish pink.

Etymology

The color name comes from the French word "cerise", meaning cherry. The word "cherry" itself comes from the Norman cherise.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in The Times of November 30, 1858.[2] This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color.[3] However, it was used at least as early as 1845 in a book of crochet patterns.[4]

Distinction between the colors cerise and cherry red

A cherry pie

In the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color it is pointed out that the color cerise has always been depicted as a somewhat bluer color than the actual color of a fresh uncooked cherry, which is denoted by a different redder color called cherry red.[5] Basically, the color cerise is a depiction of the somewhat bluer color of a cooked cherry, such as the cherries in a cherry pie.

Variations of cerise

There are various tones of cerise.

Hollywood cerise

Hollywood Cerise
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #F400A1
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (244, 0, 161)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 100, 34, 4)
HSV       (h, s, v) (320°, 100%, 96[6]%)
Source Maerz and Paul[7]/Venus Paradise C.P.[8]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.[9]

Deep cerise

Cerise (Crayola)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #DA3287
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (218, 50, 135)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (14, 87, 24, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (317°, 57%, 62%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the deep tone of cerise called cerise in Crayola crayons (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).

The color name cerise has been in use for this color since 1993 by Crayola.

Irresistible

Irresistible
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #B3446C
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (179, 68, 108)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 62, 40, 30`)
HSV       (h, s, v) (338°, 62%, 70[10]%)
Source Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color irresistible is displayed at right.

The color name irresistible first came into use in 1948.

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[11]

Cerise in human culture

Academics

°Cerise, along with the colour Blue, are the colours of prestigious Sydney school St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill

Sport

Television

See also

References

  1. ↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called cerise in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color cerise is displayed on Page 31, Plate 4, Color Sample J6.
  2. ↑ "Sign IN - Open University".
  3. ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See Cerise in Index Page 192
  4. ↑ Crochet Explained and Illustrated, by Cornelia Mee. London: David Bogue, Fleet Street (1845), p. 117.
  5. ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See discussion of the color Cerise on pages 152 and 153 within the section called Notes on Color Names
  6. ↑ Forret, Peter. "RGB color converter - toolstud.io".
  7. ↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called Hollywood in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color Hollywood is displayed on page 33, Plate 5, Color Sample K5.
  8. ↑ This color matches the color called Hollywood Cerise in the Venus Paradise colored pencil set, widely sold during the 1950s.
  9. ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See Hollywood in Index, Page 196 and Color Sample of Hollywood, Page 33, Plate 5, Color Sample K5
  10. ↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #B3446C (Irresistible):
  11. ↑ Plochere Color System
  12. ↑ "Pink and Black: The History of Penn State's Original Colors".
  13. ↑ "Reglemente - Datasektionens styrdokument".
  14. ↑ "How Leander Club came to be in the pink". Henley Standard. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2014-08-06.

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