Color Names

Dutch Licorice

Grey as the stone streets of Amsterdam, with a whiff of salty licorice.

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Dutch Licorice is a cool grey, close to blue.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Dutch Licorice

Salty liquorice

Salty liquorice, also known as salmiak liquorice, salmiac liquorice or salmiakki, is a variety of liquorice flavoured with salmiak salt, and is a common confection found in the Nordic countries, Benelux, and northern Germany.

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Liquorice

Liquorice or licorice is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted.

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Shades of black

Shades of black, or off-black colors, are colors that differ only slightly from pure black. These colors have a low lightness. From a photometric point of view, a color which differs slightly from black always has low relative luminance. Colors often considered "shades of black" include onyx, black olive, charcoal, and jet.

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dutch

Noun

  1. wife

Verb

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Dutch (“treat cocoa with alkali”).
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licorice

Noun

  1. A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.
  2. A type of candy made from that plant's dried root or its extract.
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