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* [[Pink Lady]] was a [[Japan]]ese female [[pop music]] duo of the late [[1970s]] and early [[1980s]], featuring [[Mitsuyo Nemoto]] ("Mie") and [[Keiko Masuda]] ("Kei").
* [[Pink Lady]] was a [[Japan]]ese female [[pop music]] duo of the late [[1970s]] and early [[1980s]], featuring [[Mitsuyo Nemoto]] ("Mie") and [[Keiko Masuda]] ("Kei").
* [[Pinky Suicide|Pinky]] was a [[Japan]]ese [[punk rock]] performer in the early 1990s.
* [[Pinky Suicide|Pinky]] was a [[Japan]]ese [[punk rock]] performer in the early 1990s.
* [[Shocking Blue]] – whose name may be a gender-reversing play on ''shocking pink'' – was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[rock band]] that was founded in the late 1960s.
* [[Shocking Blue]] – whose name may be a gender-reversing play on ''shocking pink'' – was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Rock music|rock]] [[Musical ensemble|band]] that was founded in the late 1960s.
* [[The Pink Spiders]], an American power pop band.
* [[The Pink Spiders]], an American power pop band.
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Pink (#FFC0CB)
#FFC0CB

Pink is a pale red color that was first recorded in the 17th century to describe the pale red flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. The color pink itself is a combination of red and white. Other tints of pink may be combinations of rose and white, magenta and white, or orange and white. Pink can also be made by combining red and white (the more white that is added to red, the lighter the tint of the new color, pink).

Roseus is a Latin word meaning "rosy" or "pink." Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). [1] The word is also used in the binomial names of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus.

Pink tulips.


Pale pink

Pale Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FADADD
sRGBB (r, g, b)(250, 218, 221)
HSV (h, s, v)(354°, 13%, 98%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(90, 19, 6°)
SourceBF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)


At right is displayed the color pale pink, a light, desaturated shade of pink.

Pastel pink

Pastel Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FFD1DC
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 209, 220)
HSV (h, s, v)(346°, 18%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(88, 27, 355°)
SourceBF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color Pastel pink. In Western culture, pastel pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys. See the section Pink in gender, below.

Web color pink

Web color pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FFC0CB
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 192, 203)
HSV (h, s, v)(350°, 25%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(84, 39, 1°)
SourceX11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed web color pink.

This color is identical to the color Tamarisk, the color of the flowers of the Tamarisk plant.[citation needed]


Web color lightpink (medium pink)

Web color lightpink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#ffb6c1
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 182, 193)
HSV (h, s, v)(351°, 29%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(81, 46, 3°)
SourceX11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color lightpink (no space).

However, if proper English usage regarding color nomenclature is to be maintained, since this color has a lower value than "pink", it should really be called medium pink if the web color "pink" (shown above) is accepted as the standard for pink. It comes in many different shades: such as hot pink and rose pink.


Nadeshiko pink

Nadeshiko Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#F6ADC6
sRGBB (r, g, b)(246, 173, 198)
HSV (h, s, v)(339°, 30%, 96%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(78, 45, 349°)
Source[2] Japanese Wikipedia
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color nadeshiko pink, called nadeshiko-iro (撫子色) in Japanese.

It is named after carnation (nadeshiko 撫子).

Web color hotpink

Web color hotpink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FF69B4
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 105, 180)
HSV (h, s, v)(330°, 59%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(65, 95, 343°)
SourceX11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color hotpink (no space).


Web color deeppink

Web color deeppink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FF1493
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 20, 147)
HSV (h, s, v)(328°, 92%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(56, 134, 350°)
SourceX11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color deeppink (no space).[1]

Dark pink

Dark Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#E75480
sRGBB (r, g, b)(231, 84, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)(342°, 64%, 91%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(57, 99, 358°)
SourceBF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color dark pink, a darker, desaturated shade of pink.


Bright pink

Bright Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FF0080
sRGBB (r, g, b)(255, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)(330°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(55, 143, 355°)
SourceHexcode Color Chart
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed a neutral shade of bright pink.


Shocking pink

Shocking Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#FC0FC0
sRGBB (r, g, b)(252, 15, 192)
HSV (h, s, v)(315°, 94%, 99%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(57, 124, 331°)
SourceBF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Shocking Pink, (also called neon pink) is bold and intense. Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli popularized this color in 1936, naming it shocking pink; it was the color of the box her perfume called Shocking Pink came in (the box was shaped like the torso of film star Mae West).

"This intense magenta was called shocking pink in the 1930s, hot pink in the 1950s, and kinky pink in the 1960s...[it] has appeared in the vanguard of more than one youth revolution...to some it sings, to others it screams" [2] It is sometimes used as a slang term to refer to the female genitalia. This color is now again called "shocking pink" to distinguish it from the web color hot pink (shown above). Its appearance is more akin to magenta than it is to traditional pink. This color has always been popular among the avant-garde.

NHRA drag racer, Shirley Muldowney was famous for driving a shocking pink dragster.

A bougainvillea with shocking pink flowers

On its way into the German language, shocking pink lost the "shocking" and is called only "Pink", while the English color "pink" is referred to as "Rosa". Meanwhile in Portuguese one of its nomenclatures arrived intact becoming "cor-de-rosa choque" ("shocking pink") used more frequently in Brazil. It's also called "çingene pembesi" (Gypsy pink) in Turkish.

Pink in gender

Person in a pink sweatshirt knitting a pink scarf
  • In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s[3]. From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because it was the more masculine and decided color while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color[4][5]. Since the 1940s, the societal norm apparently inverted so that pink became appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century[6].
  • Though the color pink has sometimes been associated with gender stereotypes, some feminists have sought to reclaim it. For example, the Swedish radical feminist party Feminist Initiative uses pink as its color.
  • Pink is the color of the Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon. Pink was chosen partially because it is so strongly associated with femininity. [7]
  • It has been suggested that females prefer pink because of an evolutionary preference for reddish things like ripe fruits and healthy faces.[8][9] This suggestion, however, has been criticized as unsubstantiated. [10]

Pink in sexuality

  • A Dutch newsgroup about homosexuality is called nl.roze (roze being the Dutch word for pink), while in Britain, Pink News is a leading gay newspaper and online news service. There is a magazine called Pink for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) community which has different editions for various metropolitan areas. [12]
  • In business, the pink pound or pink dollar refers to the spending power of the GLBT community. [13] Advertising agencies call the gay market the pink economy.

Pink in human culture

Alcoholism

Art

  • In 1993, artist Gioia Fonda created a conceptual piece in the form of a week long holiday called pink week. The intention of pink week is to liberate the color pink from all dogma and simply celebrate the color pink as a color.
  • Bubblegum Pink is an installation by the artist duo Bigert & Bergstrom which "confronted [the viewer] with three different mental climates" [15] involving large amounts of pink. This mirrors the use of the color in American prisons to calm aggressive prisoners. It features a pink cell and a carpet worn by repetitive pacing. [16]
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Surrounded Islands wrapped wooded islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric. [17] Thomas Von Taschitzki has said that "the monochrome pink wrappings"..."form a counterpoint to the small green wooded islands". [18]
  • Many of Franz West's aluminum sculptures were often painted a bright pink, for example Sexualitatssymbol (Symbol of Sexuality). West has said that the pink was intended as an "outcry to nature" and has alluded to phallic associations [19].

Calendars

Cartography

Clothing

  • Pink is a line of loungeware clothing carried by Victoria's Secret. [20]
  • Pink shirts are now tremendously popular throughout Western Civilization, but were not always so. They were once seen as a camp or even homosexual colour. At the forefront of the "pink revolution" was a Mr. J. Lewis Ritchie LLB(hons) who is credited by many as the first to popularize the garment.

Chromatics

  • Pink is used to describe a range of colors (shown above), from shades of red or orange to the more popularly used shades of pink that are shades of rose or magenta.

Cosmetics

  • Mary Kay in 1968, Mary Kay Ash, purchased the first Pink Cadillac, which eventually became the trademark of her company.

Education

Film

Finance

  • Since 1893 the London Financial Times newspaper has used a distinctive salmon pink color for its newsprint, mainly as a way to distinguish itself from competitors. In other countries, the salmon press identifies economic newspapers or economics sections in "white" newspapers.

Gender

  • The color pink is often used to represent women (See discussion above in section on Pink in gender).

Health

  • In the pink is an English idiomatic expression for in good condition or in good health.
  • Thailand's much-revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 79, left Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, wearing a pink blazer, shirt and tie, to the great confusion of HM's yellow-shirted subjects: as noted above under Calendars, pink is associated with Tuesday on the Thai solar calendar, while yellow is associated with Monday, the day on which HM was born. The English phrase in the pink is largely unknown. Coverage by the Bangkok Post noted that "Thais believe that pink is an auspicious colour for those who were born in the Year of the Rabbit ...[and] the King..."was born under that sign." Whatever the reason for HM's choice, it has caused an upsurge in the sale of pink shirts (published on November 9, 2007).

Literature

Music

Parapsychology

Politics

Recreation

  • "Paint the Town Pink" a phrase that arose in the 1950s reflecting its influence on fashion and design and the popularity of pastel colors.
  • "Moshe is pink" a phrase that grew in popularity in the mid 2000s amongst the South African homosexual community.

Religion

  • In Catholicism, pink (called rose by the Catholic Church) symbolizes joy and happiness. It is used for the Third Sunday of Advent and the Fourth Sunday of Lent to mark the halfway point in these seasons of penance. However, in some Protestant denominations, the pink candle is sometimes lit on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Love.
  • Pink is the color most associated with Indian spirtual leader Meher Baba, who often were pink coats to please his closest female follower, Mehera Irani, and today pink remains an important color, symbolizing love, to Baba's followers.
  • The Invisible Pink Unicorn is the goddess of a parody religion, a rhetorical tool intended to satirize the contradictory properties often attributed to deities.

Sexuality

Sonics

  • Pink noise (sample), also known as 1/f noise, is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency.

Sports

Television

Transportation Planning (Rapid Transit)

Video Games

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e W3C. "SVG color Keywords, CSS3 color Module, W3C Candidate Recommendation 14 May 2003". Retrieved 2007-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Varley, Helen, editor Color London:1980--Marshall Editions, Ltd. ISBN 0-89535-037-8 Page 139
  3. ^ Zucker, Kenneth J. and Bradley, Susan J. (1995). Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents. Guilford Press. p. 203. ISBN 0898622662. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Merkin, Daphne. "Gender Trouble", The New York Times Style Magazine, 12 March 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007.
  5. ^ Orenstein, Peggy. "What's Wrong With Cinderella?", The New York Times Magazine, 24 December 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007. Orenstein writes: "When colors were first introduced to the nursery in the early part of the 20th century, pink was considered the more masculine hue, a pastel version of red. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, was thought to be dainty. Why or when that switched is not clear, but as late as the 1930s a significant percentage of adults in one national survey held to that split."
  6. ^ http://www.springerlink.com/content/w77382423043083r/
  7. ^ Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness:
  8. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/sc_nm/colour_gender_dc
  9. ^ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12512-women-may-be-hardwired-to-prefer-pink.html
  10. ^ http://www.badscience.net/?p=518
  11. ^ The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals (1986) by Richard Plant (New Republic Books). ISBN 0-8050-0600-1.
  12. ^ Website of Pink magazine:
  13. ^ Opportunities in the Pink Economy of the United Kingdom:
  14. ^ Medline Encyclopedia: Delirium Tremens
  15. ^ Nemitz, Barbara. Pink The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Hatje Cantz. p. 88. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  16. ^ Nemitz, Barbara. Pink The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Hatje Cantz. p. 88. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  17. ^ Goodman, Walter (1987-10-16). "Film: Christo, in 'Islands'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  18. ^ Nemitz, Barbara. Pink The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Hatje Cantz. p. 68. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  19. ^ Nemitz, Barbara. Pink The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Hatje Cantz. p. 69.
  20. ^ Victoria's Secret Pink:
  21. ^ Principal Finds Test Scores Hair-Razing:
  22. ^ * Domenig, Roland (2002). "Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga". Archived from the original on 2004-11-18. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
  23. ^ Official site of singer Pink:
  24. ^ Oslie, Pamalie Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal Novato, California:2000--New World Library Page 342
  25. ^ Code Pink: Women for Peace on the site of Global Exchange. Accessed 31 January 2007.
  26. ^ Weisser, Thomas (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. p.20. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  27. ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114
  28. ^ Controversy regarding pink University of Iowa locker room: