Carnelian or Cornell red is a color named after the carnelian variety of the mineral chalcedony. This semi-precious gemstone is noted for its rich shade of reddish-brown.
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #B31B1B
RGB (r, g, b) (179, 27, 27)
CMYK (c, m, y, k) (0%, 100%, 79%, 20%)
HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 85%, 70%)
The first recorded use of Carnelian as a color name in English was in 1899.CMYK
Carnelian in culture
Academics
The official colors of Cornell University are carnelian and white;CMYK Carnelian is, therefore, also referred to as Cornell red.CMYK
Buildings
The Carnelian Room was a luxury restaurant that was once located on the 52nd (top) floor of the 555 California Street Building, formerly the Bank of America Center, in San Francisco, California. The average cost of an entree there was $50 to $75. (The restaurant was so named because 555 California Street is a building whose outer cladding is composed of carnelian colored granite.) The restaurant went out of business on 31 December 2009 because of the continuing impact of the 2008 economic crisis on the United States economy.CMYK
Business
In 1898, Herberton Williams, a Campbell Soup Company executive, convinced the company to adopt a carnelian red and bright white color scheme, because he was taken by the crisp carnelian red color of the Cornell University football team’s uniforms.CMYK
Literature
The Carnelian Cube is a fantasy novel written by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1948.
Carnelians is a science fiction novel written by Catherine Asaro, first published in 2012.
Jherek Carnelian is the time traveling hero of the science fiction trilogy Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
Sports
Carnelian is the main color of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise.
From Wikipedia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnelian_(color)