Color Names

Homestead Red

Weathered barn wood, the red paint worn to a soft, earthy brown.

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Homestead Red is a muted brown, close to mauve.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Homestead Red

Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometers. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy.

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homestead

Noun

  1. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

Verb

  1. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
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red

Noun

  1. The color of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the color which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive color.
  2. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Adjective

  1. Of a red hue.
  2. Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
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