Color Names

Rowntree

Dusty green, like the wrapper on a vintage chocolate bar from York.

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Rowntree is a warm olive, close to green.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Rowntree

Rowntree's

Nestlé UK Ltd., trading as Rowntree's, is a British confectionery brand and a former business based in York, England. Rowntree developed Fruit Pastilles, Kit Kat, Aero, Smarties, After Eight thin mint chocolates, and acquired the Rolo and Quality Street brands when it merged with Mackintosh's in 1969 to form Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery. The Yorkie and Lion bars were introduced in 1976. Rowntree's also pioneered festive selection boxes which in the UK have been a staple gift at Christmas for over a century.

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Rowntree trusts

The four Rowntree Trusts are funded from the legacies of the Quaker chocolate entrepreneurs and social reformers Joseph Rowntree and Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree. The trusts are based in the Rowntrees' home city of York, England. The trusts are:

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