Rust (color)

Color resembling iron oxide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rust is a red color resembling iron oxide red. It is a commonly used color on cars and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a standard tungsten light source.

Rust
Rust
Hex triplet#B7410E
sRGBB (r, g, b)(183, 65, 14)
HSV (h, s, v)(18°, 92%, 72%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(44, 102, 20°)
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Hex triplet#B7410E
sRGBB (r, g, b)(183, 65, 14)
HSV (h, s, v)(18°, 92%, 72%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(44, 102, 20°)
SourceColorHexa[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep reddish orange
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692.[2]

Origin

Rust is named after the resulting phenomenon of the oxidation of iron. The word 'rust' finds its etymological origins in the Proto-Germanic word rusta, which translates to "redness." The word is closely related to the term "ruddy," which also refers to a reddish coloring in an object.

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