Color Names

Pale Lichen

Faded lichen patches on a weathered stone wall, bleached pale by the sun.

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Pale Lichen is a pale grey, close to beige.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Pale Lichen

Lichen

A lichen is a hybrid colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among filaments of multiple fungus species, along with bacteria embedded in the cortex, or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship. Lichens are the lifeform that first brought the term symbiosis into biological context.

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Colorfulness

Colorfulness, chroma and saturation are attributes of perceived color relating to chromatic intensity. As defined formally by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) they respectively describe three different aspects of chromatic intensity, but the terms are often used loosely and interchangeably in contexts where these aspects are not clearly distinguished. The precise meanings of the terms vary by what other functions they are dependent on.

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pale

Adjective

  1. Light in color.
  2. Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).

Verb

  1. To turn pale; to lose colour.
  2. To become insignificant.
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lichen

Noun

  1. Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
  2. Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.

Verb

  1. To cover with lichen.
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