32 Shades of Chinese Color

Explore different types of Chinese colors for your website, brand or any project.

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Chinese Silver Color
The inside of an oyster shell. Chinese Silver color is a pale silver-lilac, cool and faintly metallic. Keep it beside white and chrome.
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Chinese Blue Color
Chinese Blue color is a medium-dark cobalt blue with a violet lean, like underglaze on blue-and-white porcelain. Ming dynasty potters imported cobalt from Persia for that underglaze, and #365194 matches the softer, greyer blues of export ware more than the vivid imperial pieces.
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Chinese Red Color
Wikipedia lists Chinese red as #aa381e, a brick-toned vermilion based on cinnabar lacquer. Chinese Red color #cd071e is a different animal, a cleaner, brighter scarlet. Use this one for hongbao envelopes and New Year lanterns, and the Wikipedia shade for carved lacquerware.
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Chinese Black Color
Traditional Chinese lacquerware, built up in dozens of thin layers over months, catches light with a warm depth. Chinese black color (#111100) delivers near-absolute black with a faint warm olive tint. Heritage and refined design both use it well.
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Chinese White Color
Winsor and Newton launched Chinese White in 1834, a dense zinc oxide watercolor coded PW4, named after the prized porcelain arriving from China. What color is Chinese White? A cool faintly green-grey white that stays transparent in washes. It layers over other colors without muddying them.