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
HSL and HSV the mixture of those paints with varying amounts of black or white paint. The HSL model attempts to resemble more perceptual color models such as the natural color system (NCS) or Munsell color system, placing fully saturated colors around a circle at a lightness value of , where a lightness value of 0 or 1 is fully black or white, respectively. HSL and HSV are both cylindrical geometries (), with hue, their angular dimension, starting at the red primary at 0°, passing through the green primary at 120° and the blue primary at 240°, and then wrapping back to red