Human hair color used in physical anthropology and medicine to determine the shades of hair color. The scale uses the following designations: A (very light blond), B to E (light blond), F to L (blond), M to O (dark blond), P to T (light brown to brown), U to Y (dark brown/black) and Roman numerals I to IV (red) and V to VI (red blond). Brown hair is characterized by higher levels of eumelanin and lower levels of pheomelanin. Of the two types of eumelanin (black and brown), brown-haired people have brown eumelanin; they also usually have medium-thick strands of hair. Brown-haired girls
Shades of black "X11 web colors". The color "ebony" is a representation of the color of the wood ebony, a tropical hardwood widely used to make fine furniture, notably for French kings. The first use of "ebony" as a color name in English was in 1590. The color displayed at right matches the color sample called "taupe" referenced below in the 1930 book "A Dictionary of Color", the world standard for color terms before the invention of computers. However, the word "taupe" is currently often used to refer to lighter shades of taupe, and therefore another name for this color is "dark taupe".