Color Names

Dusty Purple

Forgotten lavender, under a thin layer of attic dust.

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Dusty Purple 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.

Dusty Purple

Purple

Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is created by mixing red and blue light in order to create colors that appear similar to violet light. According to color theory, purple is considered a cool color.

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dusty

Adjective

  1. Covered with dust.
  2. Powdery and resembling dust.

Noun

  1. A medium-brown color.
  2. An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
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purple

Noun

  1. A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
  2. Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.

Adjective

  1. Of a purple hue.
  2. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
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