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Pink is the color of a namesake blossom that is a stake tint of red.^[2] ^[3] Information technology was showtime used as a colour proper name in the tardily 17th century.^[4] According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pinkish is the color virtually ofttimes associated with amuse, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweet, childhood, femininity, and romance. A combination of pink and white is associated with chastity and innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction.^[5]

In nature and culture [edit]

Diverse shades of pink
The color pinkish takes its proper name from the flowers called pinks, members of the genus Dianthus.
In about European languages, pinkish is called rose or rosa, after the rose flower.
Cherry blossoms in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. The Japanese language has different words for the pink of carmine blossoms (sakura-iro), and peach blossoms (momo-iro). Recently the word pinku has as well get popular.
Pink is sometimes associated with extravagance and a wish to exist noticed. A 1963 pinkish Cadillac.
Pink and white together symbolize youth, tenderness and innocence.

Etymology and definitions [edit]

The color pink is named after the flowers, pinks,^[6] flowering plants in the genus Dianthus, and derives from the frilled edge of the flowers. The verb "to pink" dates from the 14th century and means "to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern" (perchance from High german picken, "to peck").^[seven]

Pink rarely appears in nature, which is why information technology was commencement used as a noun to refer to a color in the 17th century.^[8] The verb "pink" continues to exist reflected today as the proper name of manus-held pair of scissors that cut a zig-zagged line to preclude fraying that are referred to as pinking shears.

History, art and fashion [edit]

The color pinkish has been described in literature since ancient times. In the Odyssey, written in approximately 800 BCE, Homer wrote "Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn appeared..."^[9] Roman poets also described the color. Roseus is the Latin word meaning "rosy" or "pink." Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura).^[10]

Pinkish was not a common colour in the mode of the Middle Ages; nobles usually preferred brighter reds, such as crimson. However, information technology did appear in women'south manner, and in religious fine art. In the 13th and 14th century, in works by Cimabue and Duccio, the Christ child was sometimes portrayed dressed in pink, the color associated with the body of Christ.

In the high Renaissance painting the Madonna of the Pinks past Raphael, the Christ child is presenting a pink blossom to the Virgin Mary. The pink was a symbol of wedlock, showing a spiritual matrimony between the mother and child.^[11]

During the Renaissance, pink was mainly used for the flesh color of faces and hands. The pigment normally used for this was called light cinabrese; information technology was a mixture of the red world paint called sinopia, or Venetian red, and a white pigment called Bianco San Genovese, or lime white. In his famous 15th century manual on painting, Il Libro Dell'Arte, Cennino Cennini described information technology this way: "This pigment is fabricated from the loveliest and lightest sinopia that is found and is mixed and mulled with St. John'southward white, as it is called in Florence; and this white is made from thoroughly white and thoroughly purified lime. And when these ii pigments take been thoroughly mulled together (that is, 2 parts cinabrese and the tertiary white), make little loaves of them like half walnuts and leave them to dry out. When yous demand some, have nonetheless much of it seems advisable. And this pigment does you great credit if you use it for painting faces, easily and nudes on walls..."^[12]

The Greek poet Homer wrote of "the child of forenoon, rose-fingered dawn" in the Odyssey. Sunrise at Serifos, Greece.
In the early Renaissance, the infant Jesus was sometimes shown dressed in pinkish, the color associated with the body of Christ. This is The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Ii Angels, past Cimabue. (1265–1280)
In the 1280s, Duccio as well painted the Christ child dressed in pink
A knight in red receiving a helmet from a damsel in pink, from an English language manuscript of The Romance of Alexander (1338-1344).

18th century [edit]

The zenith of the color pinkish was the 18th century, when pastel colors became very fashionable in all the courts of Europe. Pink was specially championed by Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), the mistress of Male monarch Louis XV of France, who wore combinations of pale blue and pinkish, and had a particular tint of pink fabricated for her by the Sevres porcelain factory, created past adding nuances of blueish, black and yellowish.^[13]

While pink was quite evidently the color of seduction in the portraits made past George Romney of Emma, Lady Hamilton, the future mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson, in the tardily 18th century, it had the completely opposite pregnant in the portrait of Sarah Barrett Moulton painted past Thomas Lawrence in 1794. In this painting, it symbolized childhood, innocence and tenderness. Sarah Moulton was just eleven years erstwhile when the picture was painted, and died the post-obit yr.

Pink had become a popular color throughout Europe by the belatedly 18th century. It was associated with both romanticism and seduction. This fashion plate is from 1778–1787.
The portrait of Sarah Moulton, popularly known equally "Little finger", by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1794). Here pinkish represented youth, innocence and tenderness.

19th century [edit]

In 19th century England, pinkish ribbons or decorations were frequently worn by immature boys; boys were simply considered small men, and while men in England wore red uniforms, boys wore pinkish. In fact the clothing for children in the 19th century was almost ever white, since, earlier the invention of chemic dyes, clothing of any colour would quickly fade when washed in boiling water.^[14] Queen Victoria was painted in 1850 with her seventh child and third son, Prince Arthur, who wore white and pink. In late nineteenth-century France, Impressionist painters working in a pastel color palette sometimes depicted women wearing the colour pinkish, such as Edgar Degas' image of ballet dancers or Mary Cassatt's images of women and children.

Queen Victoria in 1850 or 1851 with her third son and 7th child, Prince Arthur. In the 19th century, baby boys often wore white and pink. Pinkish was seen as a masculine color, while girls often wore white and blue.
Young male child in pink, American schoolhouse of painting (about 1840). Both girls and boys wore pinkish in the 19th century.
Dancers in pinkish, betwixt scenes. Edgar Degas
The Impressionist painter Claude Monet used pink, blue and dark-green to capture the effects of light and shadows on a white dress in Springtime (1872).
Mary Cassatt, Girl in a Bonnet Tied with a Big Pink Bow, 1909. Oil on canvas (68 x 57.2 cm). Private Collection.

20th century - present [edit]

The US presidential inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 when Eisenhower's married woman Mamie Eisenhower wore a pinkish dress as her inaugural gown is thought to have been a cardinal turning signal to the association of pink equally a color associated with girls. Mamie'due south stiff liking of pink led to the public association with pink being a color that "ladylike women article of clothing." The 1957 American musical Funny Face also played a office in cementing the color'southward association with women.^[fifteen]

In the 20th century, pinks became bolder, brighter, and more believing, in office because of the invention of chemical dyes which did not fade. The pioneer in the creation of the new wave of pinks was the Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, (1890-1973) who was aligned with the artists of the surrealist movement, including Jean Cocteau.^[14] In 1931 she created a new diverseness of the color, called shocking pink, made by mixing magenta with a small amount of white. She launched a perfume chosen Shocking, sold in a bottle in the shape of a woman'south body, said to be modelled on that of Mae W. Her fashions, co-designed with artists such equally Cocteau, featured the new pinks.^[16]

In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, inmates of Nazi concentration camps who were accused of homosexuality were forced to habiliment a pink triangle.^[17] Because of this, the pinkish triangle has become a symbol of the modernistic gay rights movement.^[eighteen]

The transition to pinkish equally a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective procedure of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had been describing pink as a masculine color, an equivalent of the blood-red that was considered to be for men, but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were increasingly choosing to buy pinkish for girls, and blueish for boys, until this became an accustomed norm in the 1940s.^[19] ^[20]

Mamie Eisenhower in her pinkish countdown gown, painted in 1953 by Thomas Stevens
Shocking pink, a mix of magenta with a little white, was the signature colour of Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
Pink lipstick is thought to concenter attention and harmonize with mankind colors, clothes and manner accessories.

Scientific discipline and nature [edit]

Eyes [edit]

In optics, the word "pink" can refer to any of the pale shades of colors between blue red to red in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.^[21] Although pinkish is generally considered a tint of cherry,^[22] ^[23] the colors of most tints of pink are slightly blue, and lie between red and magenta. A few variations of pink, such as salmon color, lean toward orange.^[24] ^[25] ^[26] ^[27]

Sunrises and sunsets [edit]

Every bit a ray of white sunlight travels through the atmosphere, some of the colors are scattered out of the axle past air molecules and airborne particles. This is chosen Rayleigh scattering. Colors with a shorter wavelength, such as bluish and dark-green, scatter more strongly, and are removed from the low-cal that finally reaches the eye.^[28] At sunrise and sunset, when the path of the sunlight through the atmosphere to the heart is longest, the blue and green components are removed nigh completely, leaving the longer wavelength orangish, red and pink lite. The remaining pinkish sunlight tin can also exist scattered by cloud droplets and other relatively large particles, which requite the sky above the horizon a pink or reddish glow.^[29]

Sunrise in southeast Alaska. Sunsets and sunrises are sometimes pinkish because of an optical result called Rayleigh scattering.

Geology [edit]

Biology [edit]

An Ocelated frogfish (Antennarius ocellatus), from Democratic republic of timor-leste. The frogfish is camouflaged to look like a rock covered with algae or seaweed; it lies motionless and waits for its prey to come to it.
The pig has been domesticated over 10 thou years and selectively bred to take a pinkish skin, without melanin, which farmers traditionally accept preferred to a dark colour.^[30]
Flamingoes in Laguna Colorada, Bolivia. The pink or reddish color of flamingos comes from carotenoid proteins in their nutrition of animal and plant plankton. An unhealthy or malnourished flamingo, or i kept in captivity and not fed sufficient carotene, is normally stake or white.
The Lophochroa leadbeateri, commonly known as Major Mitchell'due south Cockatoo or the pink cockatoo, is a native of the arid interior regions of Australia.

Pink coloration of meat and seafood [edit]

Raw beef is red, because the muscles of vertebrate animals, such as cows and pigs, contain a poly peptide called myoglobin, which binds oxygen and iron atoms. When beef is cooked, the myoglobin proteins undergo oxidation, and gradually turn from red to pink to dark-brown; that is, from rare to medium to well-washed. Pork contains less myoglobin than beef and therefore is less red; when heated, information technology changes from pink-cerise to less pink to tan or white.

Ham, though information technology contains myoglobins similar beef, undergoes a unlike transformation. Traditional hams, such as prosciutto, are fabricated by taking the hind leg or thigh of a sus scrofa, covering it with sea common salt, which removes the wet content, and then letting it dry or cure for every bit long equally two years. The salt (sodium nitrate) permits the ham to retain its original pink color, even when stale out. Supermarket hams are made by a different and faster process; they are brined, or infused with a salt-water solution, containing sodium nitrite, which transfers nitric oxide, which bonds with the myoglobin to class the traditional pink cured ham color.

The shells and flesh of crustaceans such equally crabs, lobsters and shrimp contain a pinkish carotenoid pigment called astaxanthin. Their shells, naturally blue-green, turn pinkish or red when cooked. The flesh of the salmon also contains astaxanthins, which makes it pink. Subcontract-bred salmon are sometimes fed these pigments to improve their pinkness, and it is sometimes also used to heighten the colour of egg yolks.

Roast beefiness gets its distinctive pink colour from myoglobin, which gradually turns from red to pink to brown (rare to medium to well-done) when heated.
Prosciutto hams also get their pink colour from salt combined with the natural protein called myoglobin.
The shells and flesh of steamed shrimp comprise a natural carotenoid pigment chosen astaxanthin, which turns pink when heated. The same process turns cooked lobster and crab from blue-green to red when they are boiled.

Plants and flowers [edit]

Pink is one of the most common colors of flowers; it serves to concenter the insects and birds necessary for pollination and perhaps also to deter predators. The colour comes from natural pigments called anthocyanins, which also provide the pink in raspberries.

A pink rose in the rain.

Pigments - Pinke [edit]

In the 17th century, the discussion pink or pinke was also used to describe a yellow pigment, which was mixed with blueish colors to yield greenish colors. Thomas Jenner'south A Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing (1652) categorizes "Pink & blew bice" amongst the greens (p. 38),^[31] and specifies several admixtures of greenish colors fabricated with pink—e.m. "Grasse-light-green is made of Pink and Bice, it is adumbral with Indigo and Pink … French-greenish of Pink and Indico [adumbral with] Indico" (pp. 38–forty). In William Salmon's Polygraphice (1673), "Pink yellow" is mentioned amid the chief yellowish pigments (p. 96), and the reader is instructed to mix information technology with either Saffron or Ceruse for "distressing" or "light" shades thereof, respectively.

Sonics [edit]

Pinkish racket ( sample(assistance·info) ), also known equally 1/f dissonance, in sound engineering is a indicate or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency.

Lighting [edit]

Grow lights ofttimes use a combination of scarlet and blue wavelengths, which generally appear pink to the human centre.^[32]
Pink neon signs are generally produced using 1 of two different methods. One method is to use neon gas and a bluish or imperial phosphor, which generally produces a warmer (more reddish) or more intense shade of pinkish. Another method is to use an argon/mercury blend and a red phosphor, which generally produces a libation (more purplish) or softer shade of pink.
Pinkish LEDs can be produced using 2 methods, either with a blue LED using two phosphors (yellow for the first phosphor, and ruby, orangish, or pinkish for the 2d), or past placing a pinkish dye on acme of a white LED. Colour shifting was a mutual issue with early pink LEDs, where the red, orange, or pink phosphors or dyes faded over fourth dimension, causing the pink color to eventually shift towards white or blue. These issues take been mitigated by the more contempo introduction of more than fade-resistant phosphors.

Engineering [edit]

Insulation manufactured by Owens Corning is dyed pink, with the Pink Panther as its corporate mascot. The company holds a trademark on the color pinkish for insulation products in order to forbid competitors from using information technology, and is the commencement company in the U.s. to trademark a colour.^[33]
The Us Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices specifies fluorescent pinkish every bit an optional color for traffic signs used for incident management equally an alternative to the traditional orangish in gild to distinguish them from construction zone signs.^[34]

In symbolism and culture [edit]

Common associations and popularity [edit]

Co-ordinate to public opinion surveys in Europe and the U.s.a., pink is the color most associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sugariness, softness, childhood, the feminine, and the romantic.^[35] Although it did not have whatever potent negative associations in these surveys, few respondents chose pink as their favorite colour. Pink was the favorite color of only two percent of respondents.^[36] There was a notable difference between men and women in regards to a preference for pink; iii percentage of women chose pink equally their favorite colour, compared with less than ane percent of men. Many of the men surveyed were unable to even identify pink correctly, disruptive it with mauve. Pinkish was also more popular with older people than younger.^[37]

In Japan, pink is the color near commonly associated with springtime due to the blooming scarlet blossoms.^[38] ^[39] This is unlike from surveys in the United States and Europe where light-green is the color most associated with springtime.

Pink in other languages [edit]

In many languages, the discussion for the color pinkish is based on the proper noun of the rose blossom; similar rose in French; roze in Dutch; rosa in German, Latin, Portuguese, Catalan, Castilian, Italian, Swedish and Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål); rozovyy/розовый in Russian; różowy in Polish; ורוד (varód) in Hebrew; গোলাপি (golapi) in Bangla; and गुलाबी (gulābee) in Hindi. In English language "rose", too, ofttimes refers to both the bloom and the color.

In Danish, Faroese and Finnish, the color pink is described as a lighter shade of cherry: lyserød in Danish, ljósareyður in Faroese and vaaleanpunainen in Finnish, all pregnant "calorie-free red". Similarly, some Celtic languages use a term significant "whitish red": gwynnrudh in Cornish, bándearg in Irish, bane-yiarg in Manx, bàn-dhearg in Scottish Gaelic (which also uses liath-dhearg "greyish/pale red" and pinc from English). In Icelandic, the color is chosen bleikur, originally meaning "pale".

In the Japanese language, the traditional word for pinkish, momo-iro ( ももいろ ), takes its proper noun from the peach bloom. There is a dissever word for the color of the cherry flower: sakura-iro. In recent times a word based on the English version, pinku ( ピンク ), has begun to exist used.

In Chinese, the colour pinkish is named with a compound substantive 粉紅色, significant "powder red" where the powder refers to substances used for women's make-upwards.

The Thai discussion for the color, ชมพู (chom-puu), derives ultimately from Sanskrit जम्बू (jambū) "rose apple".

Idioms and expressions [edit]

In the pinkish. To be in meridian class, in good health, in skilful status. In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio says; "I am the very pinkish of courtesy." Romeo: Pink for flower? Mercutio: Correct. Romeo: Then my pump is well flowered."^[40]
To run across pink elephants means to hallucinate from alcoholism. The expression was used by American novelist Jack London in his book John Barleycorn in 1913.
Pink slip. To exist given a pink slip ways to exist fired or dismissed from a job. Information technology was first recorded in 1915 in the United States.
The phrase "pinkish-collar worker" refers to persons working in jobs conventionally regarded as "women's piece of work."
Pink money, the pink pound or pink dollar is an economical term which refers to the spending ability of the LGBT customs.^[41] Advertizement agencies sometimes call the gay market the pink economic system.
Tickled pink ways extremely pleased.

Architecture [edit]

Early on pink buildings were commonly built of brick or sandstone, which takes its stake crimson colour from hematite, or iron ore. In the 18th century - the gilt age of pinkish and other pastel colors - pinkish mansions and churches were built all across Europe. More modern pinkish buildings normally use the color pink to appear exotic or to attract attention.

Casa Rosada, or the "Pink House", in Buenos Aires, built between 1713 and 1855 equally a fort and so customs house, is the official residence and office of the President of Argentine republic.
The Metropolis Center in Kannur, India.
The Majestic Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, built in 1927, was the first hotel on Waikiki Beach. Its pink color was designed to match an exotic setting, and to contrast with the blue of the ocean and green of the landscape.

Food and beverages [edit]

According to surveys in Europe and the United states of america, pink is the color virtually associated with sweet foods and beverages. Pink is too one of the few colors to be strongly associated with a detail aroma, that of roses.^[42] Many strawberry and raspberry-flavored foods are colored pink and light red as well, sometimes to distinguish them from cherry-flavored foods that are more commonly colored dark red (although raspberry-flavored foods, particularly in the United States, are often colored blue as well). The drink Tab was packaged in pinkish cans, presumably to subconsciously convey a sweet sense of taste.

The pinkish color in most packaged and processed foods, ice creams, candies and pastries is fabricated with artificial food coloring. The nigh mutual pink food coloring is erythrosine, also known every bit Red No. 3, an organoiodine chemical compound, a derivative of fluorone, which is a cherry-pinkish constructed.^[43] It is commonly listed on package labels as E-127. Another common reddish or pink (particularly in the U.s.a. where erythrosine is less ofttimes used) is Allura Crimson AC (E-129), also known every bit Ruby No. 40. Some products use a natural cerise or pink nutrient coloring, Cochineal, also called carmine, fabricated with crushed insects of the family Dactylopius coccus.

Pinkish is the colour most commonly associated with sweet tastes
Bunga kuda (also known as bunga pundak) is a traditional dessert in Malaysia, containing a kokosnoot filling
Chi chi dango is a sugariness dessert made of rice flour. It is of Japanese origin, and very popular in Hawaii
Traditional rosé wines go their colour when temporarily fermented with nighttime purple grapeskins
Pink champagne takes its color either when temporarily fermented with the skins of night purple grapes, or past adding a pocket-size amount of red vino

Gender [edit]

This restroom sign on an All Nihon Airways Boeing 767-300 uses pink for the female gender

In Europe and the U.s., pink is often associated with girls, while blue is associated with boys. These colors were first used every bit gender signifiers but prior to World War I (for either girls or boys), and pinkish was first established every bit a female gender signifier in the 1940s.^[44] ^[45] In the 20th century, the practise in Europe varied from country to country, with some assigning colors based on the baby's complexion, and others assigning pink sometimes to boys and sometimes to girls.^[46]

Many^[47] ^[48] ^[49] ^[fifty] ^[51] have noted the contrary association of pink with boys in 20th-century America. An article in the trade publication Earnshaw's Infants' Department in June 1918 said:

The more often than not accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pinkish, being a more than decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while bluish, which is more than delicate and nice, is prettier for the girl.

Ane reason for the increased utilise of pink for girls and blue for boys was the invention of new chemical dyes, which meant that children's clothing could be mass-produced and washed in hot h2o without fading. Prior to this time, most small children of both sexes wore white, which could exist often washed.^[52] Another cistron was the popularity of blue and white sailor suits for young boys, a fashion that started in the tardily 19th century. Blueish was also the usual colour of school uniforms, for boys and girls. Blueish was associated with seriousness and study, while pinkish was associated with childhood and softness.

By the 1950s, pinkish was strongly associated with femininity but to an extent that was "neither rigid nor universal" as it later became.^[53] ^[54] ^[55]

One study by 2 neuroscientists in Current Biology examined colour preferences beyond British and Chinese cultures and found significant differences between male and female responses. Both groups favored dejection over other hues, but women had more favorable responses to the crimson-purple range of the spectrum and men had more favorable responses to the greenish-yellow middle of the spectrum. Despite the fact that the study used adults in mainstream cultures, and both groups preferred blues, and responses to the colour pink were never even tested, the popular printing represented the research as an indication of an innate preference by girls for pinkish. The misreading has been often repeated in market research, reinforcing American civilization's association of pink with girls on the ground of imagined innate characteristics.^[56] ^[57]

Equally of 2008 various feminist groups and the Breast Cancer Sensation Month utilise the color pinkish to convey empowerment of women.^[58] Chest cancer charities around the globe accept used the colour to symbolize support for people with chest cancer and promote awareness of the disease. A key tactic of these charities is encouraging women and men to wear pink^[59] to show their support for breast cancer awareness and research.

Pink has symbolized a "welcome comprehend" in India and masculinity in Nihon.^[58]

In the United States and Europe, infant girls are often dressed in pink and white.
Boy in a crewman suit (1883). The blueish sailor suit helped make blueish instead of pinkish the color for boys in the 20th century.
Indian actress Shriya Saran. In many cultures, pink is associated with femininity.

Toys [edit]

Toys aimed at girls often display pink prominently on packaging and the toy themselves. This is a relatively recent tendency, with toys from the 1920s to the 1960s not beingness gendered by colour (though they were gendered by a focus on domesticity and nurturing). The current colour-based gendering of toys tin be traced back to the deregulation of children's television programs. This allowed toy companies to produce shows that were designed specifically to sell their products, and gender was an important differentiator of these shows and the toys they were advertizement.^[60]

In its 1957 itemize, Lionel Trains offered for sale a pinkish model freight train for girls. The steam locomotive and coal auto were pink and the freight cars of the freight railroad train were diverse pastel colors. The caboose was infant blue. It was a marketing failure considering any daughter who might desire a model train would want a realistically colored railroad train, while boys in the 1950s did not desire to be seen playing with a pink train. However, today it is a valuable collector's item.^[61]

Sexuality [edit]

Every bit noted above, pink combined with black or violet is commonly associated with eroticism and seduction.

In street slang, the pinkish sometimes refers to the vagina.^[62]
In Russian, pink (розовый, rozovyj) is used to refer to lesbians, and light blue (голубой, goluboj) refers to gay men.^[63]
In Japan, a genre of low budget, erotic cinema is referred to as Pink films ( ピンク映画 , Pinku Eiga ).^[64]
In India, Pink coloured turbans are worn at Hindu weddings.

Politics [edit]

Pink, being a 'watered-downwards' carmine, is sometimes used in a derogatory way to describe a person with balmy communist or socialist behavior (encounter Pinko).
The term little pink (小粉红) is used to depict the young nationalists on the internet in Prc.^[65]
The term pink revolution is sometimes used to refer to the overthrow of President Askar Akayev and his government in the Central Asian commonwealth of Kyrgyzstan subsequently the parliamentary elections of February 27 and March 13, 2005, although it is more commonly chosen the Tulip Revolution.
The Swedish feminist party Feminist Initiative uses pinkish equally their color.
Code Pink is an American women's anti-globalization and anti-war group founded in 2002 by activist Medea Benjamin. The group has disrupted Congressional hearings and heckled President Obama at his public speeches.
The TRS party of Telangana, Republic of india has pink as its main color
Information technology was a mutual practice to color the British Empire pink on maps.^[66]
Supporters of Philippine Presidential aspirant and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo used pinkish to show their solidarity with her in her 2022 presidential entrada.^[67] ^[68]

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Pink is often used every bit a symbolic colour by groups involved in issues important to women, as well as to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

A Dutch newsgroup about homosexuality is called nl.roze (roze existence the Dutch discussion for pink), while in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, Pinkish News is a gay newspaper and online news service. There is a magazine called Pink for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community which has different editions for diverse metropolitan areas.^[69] In France Pink Goggle box is an LGBT cablevision aqueduct.
In Ireland, Support group for Irish Pinkish Adoptions defines a pink family unit as a relatively neutral umbrella term for the single gay men, unmarried lesbians, or same-gender couples who intend to prefer, are in the process of adopting, or have adopted. It also covers adults born/raised in such families. The group welcome the input of other people touched by adoption, especially people who were adopted as children and are at present adults.^[70] ^{[ not-principal source needed ]}
Pinkstinks, a campaign founded in London in May 2008^[71] to raise awareness of what they claim is the damage caused by gender stereotyping of children.^[72] ^[73]
The Pink Pistols is a gay gun rights organization.^[74]
The pink ribbon is the international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Pink was called partially considering it is so strongly associated with femininity.^[75]

Academic dress [edit]

In the French academic dress system, the five traditional fields of written report (Arts, Science, Medicine, Law and Divinity) are each symbolized by a distinctive colour, which appears in the bookish dress of the people who graduated in this field. Redcurrant, an extremely red shade of pink, is the distinctive color for Medicine (and other health-related fields) fr:Groseille (couleur).

Heraldry [edit]

The word pink is not used for any tincture (colour) in heraldry, but there are ii adequately uncommon tinctures which are both close to pink:

The heraldic color of rose is a mod innovation, mostly used in Canadian heraldry, depicting a ruby pink color like the shade usually chosen rose.
In French heraldry, the colour carnation is sometimes used, corresponding to the pare color of a light skinned Caucasian human. This tin can too be seen as a pink shade merely is usually depicted slightly more brownish beige than the rose tincture.

Calendars [edit]

In Thailand, pinkish is associated with Tuesday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may article of clothing pink on Tuesdays, and anyone built-in on a Tuesday may adopt pink equally their color.

The press [edit]

Pink is used for the newsprint paper of several important newspapers devoted to business organization and sports, and the color is also connected with the press aimed at the gay community.

Since 1893 the London Financial Times newspaper has used a distinctive salmon pink color for its newsprint, originally because pink dyed newspaper was less expensive than bleached white paper.^[76] Today the color is used to distinguish the newspaper from competitors on a press kiosk or news stand. In some countries, the salmon press identifies economic newspapers or economic science sections in "white" newspapers. Some sports newspapers, such as La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italian republic, likewise employ pinkish paper to stand out from other newspapers. It awards a pinkish jersey to the winner of Italy's nearly important bike race, the Giro d'Italia. (Encounter #Sports).

Police force [edit]

In England and Wales, a brief delivered to a barrister by a solicitor is usually tied with pink ribbon. Pinkish was traditionally the color associated with the defense, while white ribbons may have been used for the prosecution.^[77]

Literature [edit]

In Castilian and Italian, a romantic novel is known every bit a "pinkish novel" (novela rosa in Spanish, romanzo rosa in Italian).
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 short story, Young Goodman Dark-brown, Faith is wearing a pinkish ribbon in her hair which represents her innocence.^[78]
Carl Surely's brusk story "Dinsdale's Pinkish" is a coming of age tale of a young man growing upwardly in Berlin in the 1930s, dealing with issues of gender, sexuality and politics.
In Louisa May Alcott's 1868-69 volume Piddling Women, Amy March uses blue and pink ribbons to tell the deviation between her sister Meg'southward newborn twins.^[79]

Faith [edit]

In the Yogic Hindu, Shaktic Hindu and Tantric Buddhist traditions rose is ane of the colors of the quaternary chief free energy center, the middle chakra Anahata. The other color is greenish.
In Catholicism, pink (called rose past the Catholic Church) symbolizes joy and happiness. It is used for the Tertiary Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) and the 4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) to mark the halfway point in these seasons of penance. For this reason, one of the candles in an Advent wreath may exist pinkish, rather than imperial.^[lxxx]
Pink is the colour most associated with Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba, who oftentimes wore pink coats to please his closest female follower, Mehera Irani, and today pink remains an important color, symbolizing beloved, to Baba's followers.
In Paganism, information technology represents affection, friendship, companionship, and spiritual healing. It is frequently used for honey spells.^[81]

Sports [edit]

Palermo, a soccer team based in Palermo, Italia, traditionally wears pinkish domicile jerseys.
Cerezo Osaka, a soccer team based in Osaka, Japan, typically wears pink home shirts. Cerezo is the spanish translation for scarlet tree, which are known for its pink blossoms.
Inter Miami, a soccer squad based in South Florida, U.s., features pink domicile shirts. The order wore white home shirts in its outset two seasons in being.
In Major League Baseball, pink bats are used by baseball players on Mother's Mean solar day as part of a calendar week-long program to do good Susan K. Komen for the Cure.
Pink tin can hateful the scarlet coat worn in fox hunting (a.m.a. "riding to hounds"). One legend about the origin of this meaning refers to a tailor named Pinkish (or Pinke, or Pinque).
The leader in the Giro d'Italian republic cycle race wears a pinkish jersey (maglia rosa); this reflects the distinctive pinkish-colored newsprint of the sponsoring Italian La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.
The University of Iowa'due south Kinnick Stadium visitors' locker room is painted pinkish. The decor has sparked controversy, perceived by some people as suggesting sexism and homophobia.^[82]
WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart, as well as other members of the Hart wrestling family, is known for his pink and black wrestling attire.
The Western Hockey League team Calgary Hitmen originally wore pinkish as a tribute to the aforementioned Bret Hart, who was a part team owner at the fourth dimension.
Snooker uses a pink-coloured object ball that is worth 6pts when legally potted.
Formula I constructors Force Republic of india and Racing Point used pink as the chief color on their cars during the 2017–2020 seasons. At the 2017 U.s. Thou Prix, the purple side-wall branding on the ultra-soft chemical compound tire was replaced by pink for the race to enhance sensation of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Several teams also incorporated pinkish into their liveries to support the cause (except Strength India, whose cars were pink to begin with).
To distinguish tuned performance models from ordinary ones, Subaru uses a badge with a pink background on their cars. Also the logo of their motorsports arm Subaru Tecnica International is colored pinkish.
The NFL among other sports have incorporated pink into their promotions, team uniforms and equipment during the month of October in back up of Breast Cancer Sensation Month.

Music [edit]

The names of the music artists Pinkish Floyd, Pinkish, Momoiro Clover Z and Blackpink use the colour as an influence.

Run across also [edit]

Fuchsia (color)
Lists of colors
Pinkstinks
Rosé, a vino whose color is betwixt red and white
Shades of pink

References [edit]

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In 1927, Fourth dimension magazine printed a chart showing sex activity-advisable colors for girls and boys according to leading U.Southward. stores. In Boston, Filene'due south told parents to dress boys in pink. And then did All-time & Co. in New York Urban center, Halle'south in Cleveland and Marshall Field in Chicago.
Today's color dictate wasn't established until the 1940s, as a consequence of Americans' preferences as interpreted by manufacturers and retailers. "It could have gone the other way"
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External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink