Cordovan (color)

{{Short description|Shade of dark red}}

{{other uses|Cordovan (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox color

|title=Cordovan

|hex=893F45

|source=Pantone Color Planner{{cite web |url=http://www.retailinsights.be/uploadedfiles/eiseman%20key%20color%20combos.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106210317/http://www.retailinsights.be/uploadedfiles/eiseman%20key%20color%20combos.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-01-06 |title=Pantone View Color Planner Summer 2007 Key Color Combinations |publisher=Metropolitan Publishing of Amsterdam |last=Shah|first=David |access-date=2008-02-17}}

|isccname=Dark red}}

Cordovan is a rich shade of burgundy and a dark shade of rose. Cordovan takes its name from the city of Córdoba, Spain, where the production of cordovan leather was first practiced by the Visigoths in the seventh century.{{cite book |last=Constable|first=Olivia Remie |title=Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1994}} The term cordovan has come to describe the color of clothing{{snd}}leather in particular; in this sense, the use of cordovan overlaps with that of oxblood.

The first recorded use of cordovan as a color name in English was in 1925.{{cite book |last1=Maerz |first1=A. |last2=Paul |first2=M. A. |title=A Dictionary of Color |location=New York |year=1930 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=193}} (Color Sample of Cordovan on p. 39 Plate 8 Color Sample H8)