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AliceBlue, named for Roosevelt's daughter that started the color trend in fashion.

There's also Peru, but I'm not sure what that's about.

As a peruvian, that brown color can only mean two things; the beautiful color of the Andes, or the shitty state of peruvian politics. Either way, I am cool with it.

OK, jokes on the side, although I really don't know for sure the source, I would say that brown color is very typical in Peru.

- You can see it in the Andes mountains: http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/8000/8924/...

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Sh...

- You can see it in the clay that is used for rooftops: http://curanderos.ru/peru/18374000.jpg

- The color of the salt mines: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/maras-salt-mines-peruvian-and...

- In the huge amount of peruvian clay pottery: https://www.google.com/search?q=peruvian+andes&espv=2&biw=12...

* Un the die for the textiles: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/63/9b/34/639b34468...

* Even in natural disasters when the river flows out ("huaycos") and destroys roads: http://cde.publimetro.e3.pe/ima/0/0/0/1/7/17391.jpg

Surprised there is a peruvian brown - but it makes sense to me :)

Peru was introduced to CSS from its status as an X11 color.

It originated as a color name ("Peruvian Brown") in the 1920's, though I'd be interested in seeing how that happened.

I asked on English stack exchange.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-per...

I'm not sure my question is good enough to stay open, but we'll see.

Thanks Dan! Reading with eager anticipation (really!)

I'd definitely be interested to learn the story behind `peru` since it doesn't seem to be related to the most obvious choice (the flag(s))

Not as cool as cosmic latte. :)

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