Chestnut (color) color called "chestnut" in Crayola crayons. This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup. At the request of educators worried that children (mistakenly) believed the name represented the skin colour of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon colour "Indian Red", originally formulated in 1958, to "Chestnut" in 1999. In reality, the colour Indian red has nothing to do with American Indians but is an iron oxide pigment the use of which is popular in India. Chestnut (color) Chestnut is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown
Venetian red red with lime white, in proportions of two to one, to paint the skin tones of faces, hands and nudes. The first recorded use of "Venetian red" as a color name in English was in 1753. Venetian red was the defining colour used by the British Army since the end of the English Civil War until its replacement with khaki, in the 1890s, mainly noted as being the primary colour of a Redcoat's dress, during the 18th and 19th centuries. Venetian red Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of scarlet, derived