Color Names

Candy Violet

Grubby, unwrapped violet candy, dropped on the sidewalk.

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Candy Violet is a muted purple, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Candy Violet

Candy

Candy, also known as sweets and lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate or chewing gum. Sugar-glazed vegetables, fruit, or nuts are considered candied.

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Violet (color)

Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1704. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.

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candy

Noun

  1. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
  2. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

Verb

  1. To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
  2. To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
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violet

Noun

  1. A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; similar-looking plants and flowers.
  2. A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.

Adjective

  1. Of a violet colour.
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