Magnolia (color)

A Magnolia × soulangeana Flower.

Magnolia
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F8F4FF
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(248, 244, 255)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(3, 4, 0, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(262°, 4%, 100%)
Source
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Magnolia is a color named after the flowering plant of the genus Magnolia.

The first recorded use of magnolia as a color name in English was in 1925.^[1]

In the UK, Magnolia is the standard creamy color   defined by British Standard BS 08B15, with the sRGB value (244, 233, 216) and CMYK (Coated) value (0, 5, 25, 0).^[2]

Resene's RGB Values List^[3] includes magnolia as (248, 244, 255).

Magnolia in human culture

Internet

• Magnolia as a named color historically enjoyed sporadic support in web browsers. In Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 it may sometimes be rendered a pale magenta. In Mozilla Firefox 2.0 it may sometimes appear grayish pink.

Real Estate

• In the UK, Magnolia paint is a neutral to warm white (as the petals in the picture of the plant), noted as being the 'standard' color of household paint, other than white.^[4] However, the color called "Magnolia" in UK paint is closer to peach rather than the rose-lavender white of the web color. It is a ubiquitous color which is available for most type of paint.^[5]

References

1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Magnolia: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample I8 Note: The color shown as “magnolia” in A Dictionary of Color is a pale white yellow color of the web color “magnolia”.
2. Magnolia BS 08B1
3. Jaffer, Aubrey. "Resene RGB Values List 2001". Resene Paints Ltd. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
4. Magnolia shades it (Daily Telegraph article)
5. Magnolia paints Dulux paint range