Color Names

Buckwheat Mauve

Dusty pink, like faded mauve dye on a flour sack from the buckwheat mill.

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Buckwheat Mauve is a warm grey, close to pink.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Buckwheat Mauve

Buckwheat

Buckwheat or common buckwheat is a flowering plant in the knotweed family Polygonaceae cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop. Buckwheat cultivation originated around the 6th millennium BC in the region of what is now Yunnan Province in southwestern China. The name "buckwheat" is used for several other species, such as Fagopyrum tataricum, a domesticated food plant raised in Asia.

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Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

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buckwheat

Noun

  1. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
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mauve

Noun

  1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
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