Mulberry (color)

The colour mulberry is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie, a darker color than that of the fresh fruit. Terms describing interchangeable shades, with overlapping RGB ranges, include burgundy, claret and maroon.

The Mulberry variant used for Crayola crayons from 1958 to 2003.
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#C54B8C
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(197, 75, 140)
HSV (h, s, v)	(328°, 62%, 77%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(50, 77, 341°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong purplish red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Mulberries

It some parts of Latin America the term is used for a lighter, redder raspberry tone.^{[citation needed]}

Commercial uses and variants

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

Prismacolor also made a pencil after the colour mulberry, which was number 995.

See also

• List of colors
• Murrey