Color Names

Dark Sand

Beach sand at dusk, or just damp.

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Dark Sand is a soft brown.

It can be described as soft, light, fresh and rather unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Dark Sand

Sand

Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is usually defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of soil or soil type; i.e., a soil containing more than 85 percent sand-sized particles by mass.

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Darkness

Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.

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Desert sand (color)

Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow color which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige.

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dark

Adjective

  1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
  2. Extinguished.

Noun

  1. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
  2. Ignorance.
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sand

Noun

  1. Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.

Adjective

  1. Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
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