"800000" redirects here. For the number, see 800,000.
Color
For other uses, see Maroon (disambiguation).
Maroon
Color coordinates
Hex triplet
#800000
sRGBB (r, g, b)
(128, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)
(0°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(26, 86, 12°)
Source
HTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor
Deep reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Maroon (US/UK /məˈruːn/mə-ROON,[2] Australia /məˈroʊn/mə-ROHN[3]) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.[4] "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".
Different dictionaries define maroon differently. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red.[5] Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red.[6] Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red.[7] The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish-crimson or claret colour,"[8] while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.[9]
In the sRGB color model for additive color representation, the web color called maroon is created by turning down the brightness of pure red to about one half. It is also noted that maroon is the complement of the web color called teal.[1]
^ ab"CSS Color Module Level 3". w3.org. 19 June 2018.
^"maroon (Random House (US) & Collins (UK) dictionaries)". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^Australian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition (2004). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-551796-5
^Cambridge English Dictionary on-line; "maroon is red!!!"; Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, 3rd College Edition, (1988). "A dark brown". Random House College Dictionary (1975), "a dark brownish".
^Cambridge English Dictionary on-line
^"MAROON | Definition of MAROON by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of MAROON". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020.
^"Definition of maroon | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.
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