Indian traditional colors

The figures below are computed at build time from every color in this system — not written by hand.

Indian traditional color is inseparable from festival and daily ritual: Holi powders, navagraha planetary hues, turmeric, indigo, madder and the saturated dyes of saris and spices form a deliberately vivid spectrum.

Well suited to festival campaigns, food and textile branding, and warm high-chroma accent palettes.

• 10 colors
• Lightness L* 33–84 (median 58)
• Chroma C, median 64.1
• Main hue families: yellow 30% · orange 20% · red 20%

How to read this system

• Names stay in their original script with a romanization — a translated color name is no longer that name.
• Values are common approximations; the same name differs between dye houses and centuries.
• Attributes such as season or five-element association reflect common usage, not a single reading.