According to Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_red_(color) -- "Indian red" refers to a pigment from India.
The Wikipedia page reports that Crayola were concerned about the mistaken etymology so used the name "Chestnut" On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 1:39 PM Lainey Gallenberg < laineygallenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm hoping someone on here knows the appropriate place/contact for me to > lodge a complaint about a color name in the "colors" function. I was > shocked to see there are four named color options that include the term > "indianred." Surely these colors can be changed to something less > offensive- my suggestion is "blush." How can I find out who to contact > about making this happen? > > Thank you in advance for any suggestions. > > Sincerely, > Elaine Gallenberg > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
