Peach (color)

Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. This name may also be substituted for "peachy". Like the color apricot, the color peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color apricot) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.

Peach
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFE5B4
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 229, 180)
HSV (h, s, v)	(39°, 29%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(92, 42, 63°)
Source	Maerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Pale yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Peach

The flesh of the peach fruit, depending on the variety of peach, can be peach colored, or paler, or more yellow-pink as here.

The color peach approximates the color of the interior flesh of that variety of peaches known as white peaches.

The first recorded use of peach as a color name in English was in 1588.^[2]

Etymology

Peach (cultivar 'Berry') - watercolor 1895

The etymology of the color peach (and the fruit): the word comes from the Middle English peche, derived from Middle French, in turn derived from Latin persica, i.e., the fruit from Persia. In actuality, the ultimate origin of the peach fruit was from China.

Variations

Peach (RYB)

Peach (RYB)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFDBB6
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 219, 182)
HSV (h, s, v)	(30°, 29%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(90, 40, 51°)
Source	RYB color system
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color that is called "peach" in the RYB color system. It is a mixture of white and some orange.^[3]

Peach puff

Peach Puff
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFDAB9
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 218, 185)
HSV (h, s, v)	(28°, 27%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(89, 38, 49°)
Source	X11
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Pale orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color peach puff.

Peach

Peach (Crayola)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFCBA4
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 203, 164)
HSV (h, s, v)	(26°, 36%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(85, 50, 43°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light yellowish pink
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the deep tone of peach called peach in Crayola crayons. Prior to 1962, it was known as flesh, but the name was changed to peach, ostensibly in recognition of the Civil Rights Movement.

See also: List of Crayola crayon colors

In nature

Fungi

• The peach-colored fly agaric is a peach-colored mushroom.

In culture

Interior Design

• In Art Deco interior design of the 1920s and 1930s, peach-colored mirrors (as well as blue mirrors) were often seen installed in exclusive luxury homes, and in nightclubs and hotels catering to the upper classes.^{[citation needed]} Peach color is also recommended for a bedroom to have a good sleep.^[4]

Religion

• The color peach represents immortality in Chinese culture because The Peach Tree of Immortality, long thought to be on a mountainside somewhere in the Tian Shan in western China, and which blooms only once every 3,000 years, is a key concept in the mythology of the Taoist religion.^[5]

Sexuality

• In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a peach bandana means that one is a "bear" or a "cub" looking for a bear.^[6]

See also

• List of colors