Russet (color)

Russet
Russet
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
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ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong brown
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Russet is a dark brown color with a reddish-orange tinge. As a

tertiary color, russet is an equal mix of orange and purple pigments. The first recorded use of russet as a color name in English was in 1562.^[1]

The source of this color is The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names (1955) used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps.[2] However, it is widely considered hard to standardize, and the same vary name could be applied to various tones; russet often has no more specific meaning than ruddy or reddish.^[1]

The name of this color derives from

woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or reddish-brown shade. By the statute of 1363, poor English people were required to wear russet.^[3]^[4]

Russet, a color of autumn, is often associated with sorrow or grave seriousness. Anticipating a lifetime of regret, Shakespeare's character Biron says in Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 1: "Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes."

Russet is mentioned in a famous quote taken from a letter Oliver Cromwell wrote to Sir William Spring in September 1643: "I had rather have a plain, russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, [than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else]".^[5]^[4]

References

^
ASIN B0014LYBSG
.

^ See sample of the color Russet (Color Sample #55) displayed on indicated page: ISCC Color List Page R.
ISBN 0-521-30572-1
.

^
OCLC 936144129
.

OCLC 239676679
. Cites Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell.

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Shades of brown

Black bean
Black olive Bole Bone Bronze

Brown Brown sugar Buff Burgundy Burnt sienna Burnt umber Camel Caput mortuum Caramel Chamoisee

Chestnut Chocolate Citron Cocoa Brown Coffee Copper Cordovan Coyote Desert sand Drab dark brown

Dun Earth yellow Ecru Fallow Fawn Field drab Fulvous Golden brown Goldenrod Harvest gold

Khaki Kobicha Lion Liver Mahogany Maroon Ochre Raw umber Red-brown Redwood

Rufous Russet Rust Sand Sandy brown Satin sheen gold Seal brown Sepia Sienna Sinopia

Tan Taupe Tawny Titian Red Umber Van Dyke Walnut brown Wenge Wheat

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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Shades of red

Indian red
Jasper

Light coral Light red Madder Mahogany Maroon Misty rose Off-red (RGB) Old rose OU crimson Penn red

Persian red Pink Poppy Red Red-brown Red (CMYK)
(pigment red) Red (Crayola) Red (Munsell) Red (NCS) Red (Pantone)

Redwood Rojo Rose Rose ebony Rose red Rose taupe Rose vale Rosewood Rosy brown Rust

Rusty red Salmon Salmon pink Scarlet Syracuse red-orange Tea rose (red) Tomato Turkey red Vermilion Wine

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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[MP-1] 
ASIN B0014LYBSG
.

[2] See sample of the color Russet (Color Sample #55) displayed on indicated page: ISCC Color List Page R.

[3] ISBN 0-521-30572-1
.

[StClair-4] 
OCLC 936144129
.

[5] OCLC 239676679
. Cites Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell.

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