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Pink glossary
Many shades of pink
#Soft pink
#Baby pink
#Rose
#Baker Miller pink
#Hot pink
#Parlor pink
#Magenta
#Shocking pink
#Cool down pink
RGB: 244, 194, 19
Our understanding of pink as a baby color precedes the gendering of pink. In the 19th century pink was associated with youth and health and by extension white bourgeois children’s “rosy cheeks.” Pink and blue were interchangeable, gender-neutral “nursery colors” well into the twentieth century (Paoletti, 88).

Jo B. Paoletti (2012): Pink and Blue. Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, Bloomington, IN: Univ. Indiniana Press.
Power of color
#Mamie pink
#Strawberry pink