Chestnut (color)

Chestnut
Chestnut
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#954535
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(149, 69, 53)
HSV (h, s, v)	(10°, 64%, 58%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(39, 63, 19°)
Source	Maerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong reddish brown
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Chestnut or castaneous^[1] is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious.^[2]

Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut. ^{[citation needed]}

Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.

^ Ian Paterson. A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour. Thorogood Publishing Ltd, 2003
^ "Wordnik". Wordnik.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

[1] Ian Paterson. A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour. Thorogood Publishing Ltd, 2003

[2] "Wordnik". Wordnik.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

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