Color Names

Bauhaus Buff

Weimar workshop walls, the colour of worn buff leather portfolios.

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Bauhaus Buff is a pale grey, close to beige.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and very unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Bauhaus Buff

Bauhaus

The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. The school became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on function.

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Buff (colour)

Buff is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.

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buff

Noun

  1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
  2. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.

Adjective

  1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
  2. Unusually muscular.
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