Color Names

Rookwood Terra Cotta

Fired earth, like a cracked garden pot left to weather.

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Rookwood Terra Cotta is a medium brown.

It can be described as medium, moderate, matte and dusty.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Rookwood Terra Cotta

Terracotta

Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta, is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramic fired at relatively low temperatures. The term is used for earthenware objects of certain types, as set out below.

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terra

Noun

  1. A geologic and geographic region of a celestial body which is a highland analogous to a continent or large landmass.

Noun

  1. Earth, soil, land, or ground as a physical surface.
  2. The material world as opposed to the heavens.
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cotta

Noun

  1. A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
  2. A kind of coarse woolen blanket.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”).
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