Carnelian (color)

Carnelian in culture

School colors

• The official school colors of Cornell University are carnelian and white;

  Buildings

• The Carnelian Room was a luxury restaurant that was once located on the 52nd floor of the 555 California Street Building, formerly the Bank of America Center, in San Francisco, California. The restaurant was so named because 555 California Street is a building whose outer cladding is composed of carnelian colored granite. The restaurant went out of business on 31 December 2009 because of the continuing impact of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. In 2013, the space the restaurant occupied was leased by video game company Supercell.

  Business

• In 1898, Herberton Williams, a Campbell Soup Company executive, convinced the company to adopt a carnelian red and bright white color scheme, because he was taken by the crisp carnelian red color of the Cornell University football team's uniforms.

  Literature

• The Carnelian Cube is a fantasy novel written by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1948.
• Carnelians is a science fiction novel written by Catherine Asaro, first published in 2012.
• Jherek Carnelian is the time traveling hero of the science fiction trilogy Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock

  Sports

• Carnelian is the main color of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball franchise.