Chestnut (color)

Chestnut or castaneous is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious.

Chestnut
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#954535
sRGBB (r, g, b)(149, 69, 53)
HSV (h, s, v)(10°, 64%, 58%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(39, 63, 19°)
SourceMaerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut.

Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.

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