Pa

85 colors

Pe

38 colors

Ph

15 colors

Pi

42 colors

Pl

5 colors

Po

15 colors

Pr

8 colors

Pu

50 colors

Common Questions About P-Colors

How many CSS named colors start with the letter P?

Eleven of the W3C/CSS named colors begin with P: pink, plum, purple, peru, powderblue, palegreen, paleturquoise, palegoldenrod, palevioletred, papayawhip and peachpuff.

What is the most familiar color that starts with P?

Purple — both a standard CSS keyword (#800080) and one of the oldest color words in English, originally naming a costly dye from sea snails.

Which P colors come from Crayola?

Many here are Crayola crayon colors, including Pacific Blue, Periwinkle, Pink Flamingo, Pink Sherbet, Piggy Pink, Purple Heart, Purple Mountain’s Majesty, Purple Pizzazz and Plump Purple.

Are any P colors named after artists’ pigments?

Yes — Phthalo Blue and Phthalo Green (synthetic phthalocyanine pigments), Prussian Blue (an iron-based pigment) and Payne’s Gray (named for watercolorist William Payne) are all standard painting colors.

Why do so many P colors share a name with a number after it?

Catalogs reuse names like “Pale Blue” or “Periwinkle” for slightly different hex values. Rather than keep bare numbers, each variant here carries a short descriptive tag (for example Deep, Light, Bright) or its source catalog (Crayola, CSS).


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