Color Names

Aquarelle Purple

Pale, watery grey, almost a ghost of purple, as if left in the rain.

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Aquarelle Purple is a pale grey, close to white.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Aquarelle Purple

Watercolor painting

Watercolor or watercolour, also aquarelle, is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

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Purple

Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is created by mixing red and blue light in order to create colors that appear similar to violet light. According to color theory, purple is considered a cool color.

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aquarelle

Noun

  1. A watercolour (painting)
  2. A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
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purple

Noun

  1. A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
  2. Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.

Adjective

  1. Of a purple hue.
  2. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
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