Color Names

Deep Ultramarine

Pigment from beyond the sea, deep as a still ocean.

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Deep Ultramarine is a medium blue.

It can be described as medium, moderate, rather unsaturated and cold.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Deep Ultramarine

Ultramarine

Ultramarine is a deep blue pigment historically derived from lazurite, the principal component of the metamorphic rock lapis lazuli. The pigment was produced by grinding the stone and undergoing a complex washing process to isolate the blue mineral, which made it exceptionally valuable.

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deep

Adjective

  1. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.

Adverb

  1. Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
  2. In a profound, not superficial, manner.
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ultramarine

Adjective

  1. Beyond the sea.
  2. Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).

Noun

  1. In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
  2. A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
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