Color Names

Imaginary Mauve

Faded purple, as if the imagination itself had lost its grip on the color.

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Imaginary Mauve 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.

Imaginary Mauve

Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

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imaginary

Adjective

  1. Existing only in the imagination.
  2. Relating or belonging to the imagination.

Noun

  1. Imagination; fancy. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. An imaginary number.
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mauve

Noun

  1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
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