Color Names

Pale Lychee

Dusty skin of the tropical lychee fruit, before the rough peel is cracked.

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Pale Lychee is a warm grey, close to mauve.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Pale Lychee

Lychee

Lychees are the fruit of the tree Litchi chinensis, the sole member of the genus Litchi, part of the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. They are edible, with a sweet, mildly tart flavor, and have a distinctive floral aroma often described as rose-like.

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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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lychee

Noun

  1. The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family.
  2. That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril.
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