Thistle (color)

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Thistle
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#D8BFD8
B	(r, g, b)	(216, 191, 216)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(300°, 12%, 85%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Thistle is a pale purple-ish color resembling the thistle plant. It closely resembles the color Wisteria.

The first recorded use of Thistle as a color name in English was in 1892. ^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Thistle: Page 107 Plate 42 Color Sample J7

[edit] See also

• List of colors

v • d • e Shades of violet
Amethyst	Cerise	Eggplant	Fuchsia	Han purple	Heliotrope	Indigo	Lavender (floral)	Lavender	Lilac
Magenta	Mauve	Mountbatten pink	Orchid	Palatinate purple	Persian indigo	Purple	Red-violet	Rose	Thistle
Violet	Wisteria