Color Names

Buff Tone

Faded leather, like a well-worn saddle.

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Buff Tone is a pale grey, close to beige.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Buff Tone

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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Tint, shade and tone

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color reduces the chroma, or colorfulness, while the perceived hue can be affected slightly.

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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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tone

Noun

  1. A specific pitch.
  2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

Verb

  1. to give a particular tone to
  2. to change the colour of
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