Color Names

Keystone Taupe

Dusty stone, the color of a keystone worn smooth, like a mole's fur.

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Keystone Taupe is a warm grey.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Keystone Taupe

Taupe

Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.

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keystone

Noun

  1. The top stone of an arch.
  2. Something on which other things depend for support.

Verb

  1. To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes a square to look like a trapezoid.
  2. To double the cost price in order to determine the retail price; to apply a markup of 100%.
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taupe

Noun

  1. A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

Adjective

  1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
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