Cordovan (color)

For other uses, see Cordovan (disambiguation).

Cordovan is a rich shade of burgundy and a dark shade of rose. Cordovan takes its name from the city of Córdoba, Spain, where the production of cordovan leather was first practiced by the Visigoths in the seventh century.^[2] The term cordovan has come to describe the color of clothing – leather in particular; in this sense, the use of cordovan overlaps with that of oxblood.

Cordovan
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#893F45
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(137, 63, 69)
HSV (h, s, v)	(355°, 54%, 54%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(37, 51, 8°)
Source	Pantone Color Planner[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Dark red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The first recorded use of cordovan as a color name in English was in 1925.^[3]

See also

• Shades of red
• List of colors