Ochre

Ochre is a color, usually described as golden-yellow or light yellow brown. As a painting pigment it exists in at least three forms:

• yellow ochre, Fe₂O₃ • H₂O, a hydrated Iron oxide
• red ochre, Fe₂O₃, obtained by heating yellow ochre
• brown ochre (Goethite), also partly hydrated Iron oxide

On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should be colored ochre:

Color Coordinates

 Hex triplet = #CC7722
 RGB    (r, g, b)    =  (204, 119, 34)
 CMYK   (c, m, y, k) =  (0, 85, 170, 50)
 HSV    (h, s, v)    =  (30, 83, 80)

See also clay earth pigment

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