Mulberry (color)

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Short description: Shade of purple
Mulberry
 
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Hex triplet#C54B8C
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong purplish red

The color mulberry is displayed on the right. This color is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie. This was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 2003.

The first recorded use of mulberry as a color name in English was in 1776.[1]

It has some similarities with the color raspberry, a shade of red also called mulberry in some countries of Latin America.[citation needed]

General Motors Holden released a model in the color Mulberry. It was the 1979 SL/E Statesman.

Prismacolor also made a pencil after the color mulberry which was number 995

See also

References

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mulberry: Plate 48 Color Sample E9