Color Names

Madder Brown

Dyed from the roots of madder, its brown is more shadowy than chocolate.

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Madder Brown 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.

Madder Brown

Rubia

Rubia is the type genus of the Rubiaceae family of flowering plants, which also contains Coffea (coffee). It contains around 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the Old World.

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Brown

Brown is a color. It can be thought as a darker, typically desaturated shade of orange, and can often be produced by combining red and yellow with another color, namely blue.

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madder

Noun

  1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
  2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.

Adjective

  1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
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brown

Noun

  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

Adjective

  1. Having a brown color/colour.
  2. Gloomy.
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