Color Names

Ancestry Violet

Dusty violet, like an old photograph of someone's great-great-grandmother.

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Ancestry Violet is a cool grey, close to purple.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Ancestry Violet

Ancestor

In genealogy and evolutionary biology, an ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent. Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."

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Violet (color)

Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1704. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.

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ancestry

Noun

  1. The state of being ancestors.
  2. Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
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violet

Noun

  1. A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; similar-looking plants and flowers.
  2. A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.

Adjective

  1. Of a violet colour.
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