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
Carmine (color) Carmine (color) Carmine is the general term for some deep red colours that are "very slightly" purplish but are generally "slightly" closer to red than the colour crimson is. Some rubies are coloured the colour shown below as "rich carmine". The deep dark red color shown at right as "carmine" is the colour of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colours are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below. The first recorded use of "carmine" as a color name in English was in 1523. The color wild watermelon is displayed at