Buff (colour) Buff (colour) Buff is the pale orange-brown colour of the undyed leather of several animals. As an RYB quaternary colour, it is the colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colours citron and russet. The first recorded use of the word "buff" to describe a colour was in "The London Gazette" of 1686, describing a uniform to be "...a Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining". It referred to the colour of undyed buffalo leather, such as soldiers wore as some protection: an eyewitness to the death in the Battle of Edgehill (1642) of Sir Edmund Verney noted "he
Indian red (color) Diderot in 1765, alternate names for Indian red included "what one also calls, however improperly, English Red." The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) – Color Sample of English Red (color sample #15). At right is displayed the color kobe. The color "kobe" is a dark tone of Indian red, made like Indian red from iron oxide pigment. The first recorded use of "Kobe" as a color name in English was in 1924. Indian red (color) Indian red is a pigment composed of naturally occurring iron oxides that is widely used in India. Other shades