Color Names

Balsam Pear

Muddy gold of the bitter melon's skin, before it's sliced.

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Balsam Pear is a muted olive, close to gold.

It can be described as muted, mellow, dull and fairly saturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Balsam Pear

Balsam

Balsam is the resinous exudate which forms on certain kinds of trees and shrubs, particularly species belonging to genera such as Myroxylon, Abies, Copaifera, Styrax, and Populus. They may occur naturally as resinous exudates following injury to bark or wood tissues. Balsam owes its name to the biblical Balm of Gilead.

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Pear

Pears are a genus of trees, Pyrus, in the family Rosaceae, that bear an edible apple-like fruit of the same name. Several species of pears are cultivated for their fruit and juices, while others are grown as ornamental flowering trees.

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Shades of yellow

Varieties of the color yellow may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a yellow or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.

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balsam pear

Noun

  1. Synonym of bitter melon.
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