Talk:Burgundy (color)

Contradiction
It's called a shade of purple much like some light shades of purple but it's shown more related with brown and red... This is contradictory!!!Herle King 16:52, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I thought burgundy is supposed to be mixture of purple and red but the displayed color looks like brown and red.


 * There seems to be differing views of what colour burgundy is (not uncommon with colours). This article, as it is currently, seems to side with the dark red view. However, most people I am familiar with he even know of a colour called burgundy usually view it as a slightly purple, very dark red colour (with the emphasis that the slight purple colour is what distinguishes it from dark red and from maroon). No mention of this other view is given in the article. Is this a regional variation? — al-Shimoni  (talk) 13:35, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Burgundy has blue in it. Maroon, cordovan, and oxblood have no blue in them. Someone seems to have confused burgundy with maroon.

EU passports
I doubt the statement that "The passports of the European Union all have burgundy covers". As you can see in the article about passports of the European Union, there is some variation among the shades of red that are used. For example, while the British passport indeed has a deep burgundy colour, Dutch passports are maroon and Greek passports seem to be bright red. A nice juxtaposition can be seen here, showing the colour differences. I propose removing said phrase. - TaalVerbeteraar (talk) 13:27, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Only the Croatian passport is not burgundy. All other passports are burgundy.TaalVerbeteraar is confusing maroon with burgundy. https://greekcitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/gpp-1.jpg this is the Greek passport cover.