The color coral pink is displayed adjacent, a pinkish color.[5]
The complementary color of coral pink is teal. The first recorded use of coral pink as a color name in English was in 1892.[6] Late in 2016, the color sample was renamed Coral Red by Pantone, as the RGB, hex and HTML color table showed the same color as being reddish, standing against popular belief of pinkish.
Still today, some people call coral red "coral pink" due to this old attribution.
The normalized color coordinates for coral pink are identical to Congo pink, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1912.[7]
^Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. 193. Color sample of coral: page 27, plate 2, color sample J10.
^ ab"Ca through Cz". ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names. John C. Foster and Texas Precancel Club. 1955. color sample #26. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2010. The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names is a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps.
^Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. 193.. Color sample of coral pink: page 27, plate 2, color sample F9.
^Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Congo Pink: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample C10
