Mulberry (color)

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

Mulberry
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 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

• List of colors
• Murrey

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