Marie Felix Hippolyte Lucas  1854-1925  Beauty in Pink The color Pink Pink is any of the colors between bluish red (purple) to red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation. Commonly used for Valentine’s Day and Easter, pink is sometimes referred to as “the color of love.” The use of the word for the color known today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century. Although pink is roughly considered just as a tint of red, most variations of pink lie between red, white and magenta colors. This means that the pink’s hue is somewhat between red and magenta. Roseus is a Latin word meaning “rosy” or “pink.” Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). The word is also used in the binomial names of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus. In most Indo-European languages, the color pink is called rosa. In Persian, it is called “Souraty”, meaning “Color of the face”. In the pink is an English idiomatic expression for in good condition or in good health.

Marie Felix Hippolyte Lucas  1854-1925  Beauty in Pink

The color Pink

Pink is any of the colors between bluish red (purple) to red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation. Commonly used for Valentine’s Day and Easter, pink is sometimes referred to as “the color of love.” The use of the word for the color known today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century.

Although pink is roughly considered just as a tint of red, most variations of pink lie between red, white and magenta colors. This means that the pink’s hue is somewhat between red and magenta.

Roseus is a Latin word meaning “rosy” or “pink.” Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura).

The word is also used in the binomial names of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus.

In most Indo-European languages, the color pink is called rosa. In Persian, it is called “Souraty”, meaning “Color of the face”.

In the pink is an English idiomatic expression for in good condition or in good health.

  • February 10
  • , 2012
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