Peach (color)

The flesh of the peach fruit, depending on the variety of peach, can be peach colored, or more pale, or more yellow-orange as here.

Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the exterior flesh of the peach fruit. Like the color apricot, the color called peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color apricot) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design. Peach can also be described as a pale, pinkish-yellow.

Peach

Peach

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFE5B4
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(255, 229, 180)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 10, 29, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(40°, 29%, 100%)
Source	Maerz and Paul^[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color peach.

The shade of peach shown at right approximates the color of the interior flesh of that variety of peaches known as white peaches.

The first recorded use of peach as a color name in English was in 1588.^[2]

Etymology of peach

The etymology of the color peach (and the fruit): the word comes from the Middle English peche, derived from Middle French, in turn derived from Latin persica, i.e., the fruit from Persia. In actuality, the ultimate origin of the peach fruit was from China.

Variations of peach

Peach puff

Peach Puff

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFDAB9
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(255, 218, 185)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 10, 29, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(40°, 29%, 100%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the web color peach puff.

Deep peach

Peach (Crayola)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFCBA4
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(255, 203, 164)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 10, 33, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(40°, 34%, 100%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the deep tone of peach called peach in Crayola crayons.

Peach in nature

Fungi

The peach-colored fly agaric is a peach-colored mushroom.

Peach in human culture

Interior Design

In Art Deco interior design of the 1920s and 1930s, peach-colored mirrors (as well as blue mirrors) were often seen installed in exclusive luxury homes, and in nightclubs and hotels catering to the upper classes.

Religion

The color peach represents immortality in Chinese culture because The Peach Tree of Immortality, long thought to be on a mountainside somewhere in the Tian Shan in western China, and which blooms only once every 3,000 years, is a key concept in the mythology of the Taoist religion.^[3] (The color amaranth represents immortality in Western civilization.)

Sexuality

In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a peach bandana means that one is a "bear" or a "cub" looking for a bear.^[4]

References

↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called peach in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color peach is displayed on page 41, Plate 9, Color Sample A5.
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw Hill Page 201; Color Sample of Peach: Page 41 Plate 9 Color Sample A5
↑ Google Book Result—Chinese mythology A to Z by Jeremy Roberts:
↑ Andrews, Vincent (2010), The Leatherboy Handbook, The Nazca Plains Corp., ISBN 978-1-61098-046-3

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