Cerise (color)

Cerise
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DE3163
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(222, 49, 99)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(7, 95, 46, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(343°, 78%, 87%)
Source	Maerz and Paul[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Cerise (/səˈriːs/ or /səˈriːz/; French pronunciation: ​[səˈʁiz]) is a deep to vivid reddish pink.

Etymology

The color name comes from the French word "cerise", meaning cherry. The word "cherry" itself comes from the Norman cherise.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in The Times of November 30, 1858.^[2] This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color.^[3] However, it was used at least as early as 1845 in a book of crochet patterns.^[4]

Distinction between the colors cerise and cherry red

A cherry pie

In the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color it is pointed out that the color cerise has always been depicted as a somewhat bluer color than the actual color of a fresh uncooked cherry, which is denoted by a different redder color called cherry red.^[5] Basically, the color cerise is a depiction of the somewhat bluer color of a cooked cherry, such as the cherries in a cherry pie.

Variations of cerise

There are various tones of cerise.

Hollywood cerise

Hollywood Cerise
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F400A1
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(244, 0, 161)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 100, 34, 4)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(320°, 100%, 96[6]%)
Source	Maerz and Paul[7]/Venus Paradise C.P.[8]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed Hollywood cerise in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.^[9]

Deep cerise

Cerise (Crayola)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DA3287
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(218, 50, 135)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(14, 87, 24, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(317°, 57%, 62%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the deep tone of cerise called cerise in Crayola crayons (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).

The color name cerise has been in use for this color since 1993 by Crayola.

Irresistible

Irresistible
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#B3446C
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(179, 68, 108)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 62, 40, 30`)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(338°, 62%, 70[10]%)
Source	Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color irresistible is displayed at right.

The color name irresistible first came into use in 1948.

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.^[11]

Cerise in human culture

Academics

• From 1887 to 1890, Cerise and black were Pennsylvania State University's original official colors, after which they were changed to the current blue and white.^[12]
• Cerise is one of the two official colors of Abingdon School, the other being white.
• Cerise is the color representing students of the MSc programme in Computer Science and Engineering at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology.^[13]
• Cerise is the color representing students of the bachelor programme at Chalmers University of Technology.
• Cerise is the color representing students of the BA programmes at the British University of Warwick.
• Cerise is the color representing students of the MMath programmes at the British University of Durham.
• Light Cerise is the color representing students of the Arts programmes at the National University of Singapore.

°Cerise, along with the colour Blue, are the colours of prestigious Sydney school St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill

Sport

• Bandy balls are cerise.
• Cerise was one of the colors of the Brisbane Bears between 1989 and 1991.
• Cerise is one of the colors of Olney Rugby Football Club Juniors.
• Cerise is the color of Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs.^[14]

Television

• Cerise is mentioned in the lyrics of The Spectrum Song sung by Ludwig Von Drake on the television show Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: "Blend them all and what do you get? Cerise, chartreuse, and aqua, mauve, beige, and ultramarine and every color in between."
• Cerise is stated as a color that drains the complexion of Mrs Hudson in the "Sherlock" series one episode "The Great Game".
• Cerise is stated as the color of a stroller that Bones wishes to buy for her and Booth's daughter, Christine, in the Bones season eight episode "The Gunk in the Garage".
• The episode "Hostages" in the second season of Veep features a joke about a cerise notebook.
• The characters Rainbow Dash and Vinyl Scratch (DJ Pon3) from the animated television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic have cerise colored eyes, and the background character Cherilee has a moderate cerise coat.
• Cerise Hood is a character in the Mattel line Ever After High.

See also

• Fuchsia (color)
• Rose (color)
• List of colors

References

1. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called cerise in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color cerise is displayed on Page 31, Plate 4, Color Sample J6.
2. "Sign IN - Open University".
3. Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See Cerise in Index Page 192
4. Crochet Explained and Illustrated, by Cornelia Mee. London: David Bogue, Fleet Street (1845), p. 117.
5. Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See discussion of the color Cerise on pages 152 and 153 within the section called Notes on Color Names
6. Forret, Peter. "RGB color converter - toolstud.io".
7. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called Hollywood in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color Hollywood is displayed on page 33, Plate 5, Color Sample K5.
8. This color matches the color called Hollywood Cerise in the Venus Paradise colored pencil set, widely sold during the 1950s.
9. Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See Hollywood in Index, Page 196 and Color Sample of Hollywood, Page 33, Plate 5, Color Sample K5
10. web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #B3446C (Irresistible):
11. Plochere Color System
12. "Pink and Black: The History of Penn State's Original Colors".
13. "Reglemente - Datasektionens styrdokument".
14. "How Leander Club came to be in the pink". Henley Standard. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2014-08-06.

External links

• Crayola crayon history including Cerise, added in 1993