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Watermelon color
The color watermelon is displayed at left. The first recorded use of watermelon as a color name in English was in 1926.... This color is identical with the Crayola color wild watermelon (see the List of Crayola crayon colors). The color name wild watermelon has been in use for this color since 1990 by Crayola (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).
— Color coordinates of Watermelon: Hex triplet: #D8424F; RGB: (r, g, b)(216, 66, 79); HSV (h, s, v): (0°, 95%, 84%)
Reference: Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 207; Color Sample of Watermelon: Page 25 Plate 1 Color Sample K9
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Watermelon color". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.# posted by Cliff Pickover @ 11:38 AM 
