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Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".[1]
Puce | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #CC8899 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (204, 136, 153) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (345°, 33%, 80%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (64, 43, 356°) |
Source | 99colors.net |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark pink |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Puce became popular in the late 18th century in France. It appeared in clothing at the court of Louis XVI, and was said to be a favorite color of Marie Antoinette, though there are no portraits of her wearing it.[2][3][4]
Puce was also a popular fashion color in 19th-century Paris. In his novel Nana, Émile Zola describes a woman "dressed in a dark gown of an equivocal color, somewhere between puce and goose shit."[5] In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Mademoiselle Baptistine wears "a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since."[6]
The color to the right is the color called puce in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955). Since this color has a hue code of 353, it is a slightly purplish red.
The color box to the right shows the color called puce in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color;[7] the color puce is displayed on page 37, Plate 7, Color Sample H4.
Puce (Pourpre color list) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #4E1609 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (78, 22, 9) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (11°, 88%, 31%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (17, 38, 18°) |
Source | Pourpre.com |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is the color called puce in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France. This is the original puce, from which all other tones of puce ultimately derive.[citation needed]
The color at right is called puce in the Pantone color list.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce.[9]
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