Puce
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CC8899
B	(r, g, b)	(204, 136, 153)
CMYKH	(c, m, y, k)	(0, 73, 66, 59)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(354°, 186%, 104%)
Source		background color at www.puce.com, codes obtained with ColorPic freeware color picker by Iconico Software
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Puce is a color that is defined as ranging from reddish-brown to purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources. It can be used as either a noun (the name of the color) or as an adjective (something having that color). Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... For other uses, see Red (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Green (disambiguation). ... This article is about the colour. ... Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). ... Cyan (from Greek κυανοs, meaning blue) may be used as the name of any of a number of a range of colors in the blue/green part of the spectrum. ... Magenta is a color made up of equal parts of red and blue light. ... This article is about the color. ... This article is about the color. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ...

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the use of "puce" (in couleur puce) from 1775. The word comes from French; puce literally means "flea", as the usual flea coloration is either dark reddish-brown or dark purplish-brown. For other uses, see Flea (disambiguation). ...

According to available sources, the etymology of "puce" is French "puce" from Old French "pulce", from Latin "pūlic-", "pūlex".

Puce in popular culture

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Comics Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that societys vernacular language or lingua franca. ...

• A collection of Walt Kelly's influential Pogo comics was called "The Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog". It had a puce cover.
• In the Dilbert comic strip, the boss' favorite color is puce, but he doesn't know that because he is mistakenly thinking of a primary color, as he doesn't know what puce is.

Games Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr (August 25, 1913 - October 18, 1973), known simply as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. ... Pogo as drawn by Walt Kelly. ... Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. ...

• In the computer game Nethack potions are randomly generated with different colors or other descriptions. One of the colors is puce.

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• In the number "A more humane Mikado (Let the Punishment Fit the Crime)" in the operetta The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan, the title character sings of the dire fate of the woman "who stains her gray hair puce".
• In the song "I Love to Color" off his children's album Pockets, Joe Wise talks at length about the characteristics and uses of the color puce.

Film The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. ... W. S. Gilbert Arthur Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). ...

• Kenneth Anger made a short film called Puce Moment.
• Santa Claus: The Movie referenced "puce" for the color the magic lollipops that made children fly, including a humorous remark about it: "If this ever takes off, we could make this in liquid form: Puce Juice."
• In the film Monsters, Inc., Sullivan comments on having "no idea what puce is" when sorting files to take to the office. He learns soon after.
• In the episode "I Was a Teenage Monster" from the American television show The Monkees, a Frankenstein-type monster (Richard Kiel) looks around his laboratory and says "I would do this room in lavender and puce."
• In the British television show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, one slogan for the fictional Grot stores is "Grot has lots of things that aren’t of any use, some of them are red, some of them are green and some of them are puce."
• In the 1988 made-for-tv movie "Dance 'til Dawn", the prom theme is "Paris in Puce"