Color Names

January Garnet

Dark, muted garnet, the birthstone for a cold winter month.

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January Garnet is a medium brown, close to maroon.

It can be described as medium, moderate, dim and gloomy.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

January Garnet

January

January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

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Garnet

Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.

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Shades of red

Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma, lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.

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garnet

Noun

  1. A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
  2. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.

Adjective

  1. Of a dark red colour.
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