Oxblood

Oxblood
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#800020
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(128, 0, 32)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(345°, 100%, 50%)
Source	[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Oxblood is a color considered to be a dark shade of red. It resembles burgundy, but has more purple and dark brown hues.

Oxblood, the color.

Origin of the term

The first use of the term oxblood as a color name in the English language dates back to 1695–1705.^[1] The name is derived from the color of the blood of an ox. The ox blood was used as a pigment to dye fabric, leather and paint. It is most commonly described as a dark red with purple and brown undertones. The blood would change from a bright red to a darker, oxidized, more brown-red as it aged.^[2] The term oxblood can be used to describe a range of colors from red to reddish-purple to nearly black with red, brown and blue undertones.^[3]

The color is used in fashion terms.^[4] It was popular and the name was used frequently in the 2012 Fall/Winter fashion season.^[5]

In modern culture

Oxblood is a relatively common color for leather shoes. It is sometimes called "cordovan" although this term more properly refers to a particular type of horse leather. During the Fall/Winter fashion seasons of 2012 and 2013, oxblood was one of the commonly used colors. Oxblood lipstick was popular, as well as oxblood-colored apparel and accessories.^[6] In an article on the oxblood trend, Lucky Magazine suggested that people are now "dismissing words like burgundy from their vocabularies", adding that the word 'oxblood' might be more on-trend than the color itself.^[7]

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