Color Names

Powder Soft Blue

Pale blue as gentle as face powder, a whisper of colour.

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Powder Soft Blue is a pale grey, close to blue.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Powder Soft Blue

Powder

A powder is a dry solid composed of many very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted. Powders are a special sub-class of granular materials, although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish separate classes of material. In particular, powders refer to those granular materials that have the finer grain sizes, and that therefore have a greater tendency to form clumps when flowing. Granulars refer to the coarser granular materials that do not tend to form clumps except when wet.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RGB (additive) colour model, as well as in the RYB colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.

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powder

Noun

  1. The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

Verb

  1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
  2. To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
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soft

Adjective

  1. Easily giving way under pressure.
  2. Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.

Interjection

  1. Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
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blue

Adjective

  1. Of a blue hue.
  2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Noun

  1. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
  2. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
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