Chestnut and Reddish

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Chestnut adjective - (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color.

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Reddish and chestnut are semantically related in colour topic. In some cases you can use "Reddish" instead an adjective "Chestnut".

Reddish adjective - Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.

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Chestnut and reddish are semantically related in colour topic. You can use "Chestnut" instead an adjective "Reddish".

In Death Note, Light (and Yotsuba Group member Mido, for that matter) have chestnut-to-red hair, which, judging by the series' colour palette, would translate to Real Life as reddish-black.

Source: Hair Color Dissonance
Morte's hair is a light reddish-chestnut in portraits and art but a medium dull brown in her sprites.

Source: Video Game / Sands of Destruction
Interestingly, she didn't start out as a red-head (the early descriptions of her describe her hair as a fairly uninteresting chestnut brown), but a combination of this trope and the fact that the cover artist always depicted her as having reddish hair eventually turned her into a ginger.

Source: Red-Headed Stepchild

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