Chestnut (color)
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Chestnut or castaneous[1] is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious.[2]
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Chestnut | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #954535 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (149, 69, 53) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (10°, 64%, 58%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (39, 63, 19°) |
Source | Maerz and Paul |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong reddish brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut. [citation needed]
Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.