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Ruby color

Ruby is a color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished ruby gemstone and is a shade of red or pink.

Color coordinates
Hex triplet #E0115F
RGB (r, g, b) (224, 17, 95)
CMYK (c, m, y, k) (0, 92, 57, 12)
HSV (h, s, v) (337°, 92%, 88%)

Origins
The first recorded use of ruby as a color name in English was in 1572.

Variations of ruby

Rubine red
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #D10056
sRGBB (r, g, b) (209, 0, 86)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 100, 59, 18)
HSV (h, s, v) (335°, 100%, 82%)

Ruber
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #CE4676
sRGBB (r, g, b) (206, 70, 118)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 66, 43, 19)
HSV (h, s, v) (339°, 66%, 81%)

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)–Color Sample of Ruber (color sample #254).

Medium ruby
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #AA4069
sRGBB (r, g, b) (170, 64, 105)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 62, 38, 33)
HSV (h, s, v) (337°, 62%, 67%)

Medium ruby is the color called ruby in Crayola Gem Tones, a specialty set of crayons introduced by the Crayola company in 1994.

Ruby red
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #9B111E
sRGBB (r, g, b) (155, 17, 30)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 89, 81, 39)
HSV (h, s, v) (354°, 89%, 61%)

This is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, a color system widely used in Europe. The RAL color list originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.

Big dip o’ruby
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #9C2542
sRGBB (r, g, b) (156, 37, 66)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 76, 58, 39)
HSV (h, s, v) (345°, 76%, 61%)

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Big dip o’ruby is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.

This is supposed to be a metallic color. However, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.

Antique ruby
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #841B2D
sRGBB (r, g, b) (132, 27, 45)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 80, 66, 48)
HSV (h, s, v) (350°, 80%, 52%)

The first recorded use of antique ruby as a color name in English was in 1926.

The color antique ruby is a dark tone of ruby.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)–Color Sample of Antique Ruby (color sample #13).

Deep ruby
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #843F5B
sRGBB (r, g, b) (132, 63, 91)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 52, 31, 48)
HSV (h, s, v) (336°, 52%, 52%)

Deep tone of ruby that is called ruby in the British Standards 381 color list. This color is #542 on the 381 color list. The 381 color list is for colors used in identification, coding, and other special purposes. The British Standard color lists were first formulated in 1930 and reached their present form in 1955.

Ruby in nature
The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a small hummingbird. It is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River in North America.
Infrared light in the portion of the spectrum where it is still visible to humans (out to approximately 1050 nanometers) appears ruby red. Starting at about 660 nm in the visible red, a monochromatic source such as an LED or laser begins to look very slightly purplish, gradually becoming more so as the wavelength increases. Below about 900 nm, the color is more purple than red, similar to some of the color samples on this page.
Ruby in culture
Film

The ruby slippers are the magical shoes worn by Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland) in the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz.

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