14 Shades of Egyptian Color

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1. #1034a6

   

   Egyptian Blue Color

   Egyptian blue is the first known synthetic pigment in human history, created around 2600 BCE during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty by firing sand, lime, and copper into calcium copper silicate. Artisans painted it onto tomb walls and the skin of gods. Remarkably, it still glows under infrared light thousands of years later, which is how archaeologists detect traces invisible to the naked eye.

2. #e5f1ec

   

   Egyptian White Color

   Egyptian cotton, grown in the Nile delta, bleaches to a cool clean white prized for high-thread-count sheets. Egyptian White color (#e5f1ec) takes that crisp pale green-white. A fresh, airy bedroom finds its exact shade here.

3. #08847c

   

   Egyptian Green Color

   Ancient Egyptian faience beads got their blue-green glaze from copper, and the range ran from turquoise to deep green. Egyptian Green color (#08847c) lands near the deeper end, a strong teal you can picture strung on a broad collar necklace.

4. #983f4a

   

   Egyptian Red Color

   Ancient Egyptian painters got their reds from red ochre, iron oxide earth dug from the desert. Egyptian Red color #983f4a is cooler and more rose-tinted than that ochre, a muted raspberry brown, so the name is more mood than archaeology.

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