Jasmine (color)

Summary

The color jasmine is a pale tint of yellow, displayed at right.[1] It is a representation of the average color of the more yellowish lower part of the pale yellowish white colored jasmine flower. The first recorded use of jasmine as a color name in English was in 1925.[2]

Jasmine
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#F8DE7E
sRGBB (r, g, b)(248, 222, 126)
HSV (h, s, v)(47°, 49%, 97%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(89, 68, 71°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Example of jasmine: A double-flowered cultivar of Jasminum sambac in flower with an unopened bud. The flower smells like the tea as it opens.

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  1. ^ http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-j.htm Archived 2008-05-02 at the Wayback Machine ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Jasmine (color sample #86)
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197; Color Sample of Jasmine: Page 41 Plate 9 Color Sample K4

External links edit

  •   The dictionary definition of jasmine at Wiktionary