Color Names

Riviera Clay

Sun-baked earth from the Mediterranean coast, worn smooth.

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Riviera Clay is a soft beige, close to peach.

It can be described as soft, light, warm and pastel.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Riviera Clay

Riviera

Riviera is an Italian word which means 'coastline', ultimately derived from Latin rīpa, through Ligurian rivêa. It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of Liguria in the form Riviera ligure, then shortened in English.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

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riviera

Noun

  1. Any coastal area popular with tourists.
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clay

Noun

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.

Verb

  1. To add clay to or to spread clay onto.
  2. To purify using clay.
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