Rose (color)
color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta, whose hue corresponds to an angle of 330 degrees on the HSV/HSL color wheel.
Rose, or vivid pink is one of the tertiary colors on the HSV (RGB) color wheel. The complementary color of rose is spring green. Sometimes rose is quoted instead as the web-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees.
Shades of rose
Etymology of rose
The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English was in 1382.
The etymology of the color name rose is the same as that of the name of the rose flower. The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).
In culture
Geography
British historian John William Burgon famously described the Jordanian city of Petra as being colored rose, writing:
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
A rose-red city – half as old as time!
Marrakesh, Morocco is called the Rose City because many of its buildings are colored various tones of rose.
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