Color Names A-Z
1312 color names covering 1177 distinct hex values — the CSS keywords, the everyday design names, and the published paint, print and heraldic registries collected in one index.
Names matter more than they look like they should. A hex code identifies a color exactly but tells you nothing about it, whereas a name carries a reference everyone in a conversation can check. That is also why most color searches are name searches: people want to know what a color is called before they want its RGB values. Pick a letter to see every name filed under it with its swatch and hex code.
A45 colors
B89 colors
C91 colors
D68 colors
E23 colors
F43 colors
G43 colors
H18 colors
I28 colors
- Iceberg
- Iced Tea
- Icterine
- Illuminating Emerald
- Imperial
- Imperial Blue
- Imperial Red
- Inchworm
- Independence
- India Green
- Indian Red
- Indian Yellow
- Indigo
- Indigo (Color Wheel)
- Indigo (Crayola)
- Indigo (Web Color)
- Indigo Dye
- International Orange (Aerospace)
- International Orange (Engineering)
- International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge)
- Iridescent Indigo
- Iris
- Iron Gray
- Iron Indigo
J11 colors
K13 colors
L86 colors
M149 colors
N32 colors
O48 colors
P139 colors
Q6 colors
R70 colors
S117 colors
T64 colors
U13 colors
V55 colors
- Vampire Black
- Van Dyke Brown
- Vanilla
- Vanilla Ice
- Vantablack
- Vantg Blue
- Vegas Gold
- Venetian Red
- Verdigris
- Vermilion
- Vermilion (Medium)
- Veronica
- Very Light Azure
- Very Light Blue
- Very Light Malachite Green
- Very Light Tangelo
- Very Pale Orange
- Very Pale Yellow
- Vibrant Purple
- Vine Green
- Violet
- Violet (Caran D'ache)
- Violet (Color Wheel)
- Violet (Crayola)
W26 colors
X7 colors
Y14 colors
Z14 colors
Where These Names Come From
There is no single registry of color names. The 140 CSS keywords are the only set with a specification behind them, and they exist mostly by accident — they were inherited from the X Window System, which is why the web has both gray and grey and why darkgray is lighter than gray. Everything beyond them comes from paint manufacturers, print standards, heraldry, textile trades and design convention, and those sources disagree with each other regularly.
This index treats the CSS keywords as authoritative and layers the published registries underneath, so a name always resolves to one hex value. Where a color has more than one accepted name, its page lists them all. Where a hex has no name at all — which is true of almost all 16.7 million of them — the page gives the closest named colors instead, measured perceptually in CIELAB rather than by raw RGB distance.
Looking specifically for the CSS keywords you can write in a stylesheet? See the CSS color names reference. To browse by color rather than by name, use the color library.