What are some of the strangest color names

It's hard to say what is and what is not "strange," however after looking through a list of several hundred color names we found quite a few that we'd never heard of in school.

Here are some of them along with their corresponding RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values:

  • AliceBlue: 239,247,255
    Bisque: 255,228,196
    BlanchedAlmond: 254,232,198
    CadetBlue: 87,134,147
    CornflowerBlue: 100,149,237
    CornSilk: 255,247,215
    DodgerBlue: 21,137,255
    Gainsboro: 216,217,215
    GhostWhite: 247,247,255
    MintCream: 245,255,249
    Moccasin: 253,224,172
    PapayaWhip: 254,236,207
    PeachPuff: 252,213,176
    Peru: 197,119,38
    Thistle: 210,185,211

If you'd like to see what any of these colors look like, go to this web site and enter each of the values into the the three text fields labelled "Decimal," and click the "Display" button.

Updated on Thursday, June 07 2012 at 02:32PM EDT
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