Color Names

Acadia

Dark forest shadows in the Maritime provinces where French colonists settled.

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Acadia is a black, close to grey.

It can be described as dark, neutral, shady and dim.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Acadia

Acadia

Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. Settlers primarily came from the southwestern regions of France, including Poitou-Charentes and the Aquitaine region, as well as Poitou and Anjou. The territory was inhabited by various First Nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy who referred to the region as Dawnland.

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Acadia

Proper noun

  1. A former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.
  2. Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
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