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
Shades of red to this purity–power tradeoff and their "red" may be less colorful and more orangish than the standard red of sRGB. This color is also the color called "red" in the X11 web colors, which were originally formulated in 1987. It is also called "color wheel red". It is at precisely zero (360) degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel (). Its complementary color is cyan. "Pigment red" is the color red that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) magenta and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions. This is the color red that is shown