Learn About Colors

Color is everywhere! Look around you. How many colors can you see? Do you know the names of colors in English? Do you know how to spell the colors properly? Here is a colour chart to help you with some of the most common colors. The first 7 colors on the wheel are the colours of the rainbow.

Note: In British English we write colour. In American English we write color.

1 red 2 orange 3 yellow 4 green 5 blue 6 indigo 7 violet 8 purple 9 pink 10 silver 11 gold 12 beige 13 brown 14 grey 15 black 16 white

How to use color in a sentence

There are three different ways to describe the color of something:

1. My dad's car is red.
2. The red car is my dad's.
3. Red is the color of my dad's car.

Shades

Colors have different shades. You can have:

• dark green

•  light green 

• bright green

When you aren't exactly sure how to describe a color you can use the suffix "ish".
Native speakers often use "ish" to describe colors! For example, a color can be:

• purplish 

• reddish 

• blueish

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