Color Names

Rufous

Iron oxide red, like rust on a gate or a fox's fur.

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Rufous is a rich red, close to maroon.

It can be described as rich, strong, warm and highly saturated.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Rufous

Rufous

Rufous is a colour that may be described as reddish-brown or brownish-red, as of rust or oxidised iron. The first recorded use of rufous as a colour name in English was in 1782. However, the colour is also recorded earlier in 1527 as a diagnostic urine colour.

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rufous

Adjective

  1. Of a reddish colour.

Noun

  1. Ellipsis of rufous hummingbird.
  2. A reddish-brown colour, as of rust.
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