Color Names

Linen

Freshly ironed linen, crisp and smooth as a summer sheet.

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Linen is a white.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Linen

Linen

Linen is a textile made from the bast fibers of the flax plant. Linen cloth has been produced since ancient times primarily for use in clothing and household items.

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Shades of white

Shades of white are colors that differ slightly from the CIE standard illuminant D65, a white point that represents the average color of daylight at noon. There isn't one objectively pure white, as noon daylight varies by location and atmospheric conditions, and the choice of using D65 instead of direct sunlight or a white point on the Planckian locus is arbitrary. For simplicity, this article will use the term pure white for the D65 white point.

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