Color Names

San Francisco Mauve

Foggy San Francisco dusk, the purple in the sky after the sun sets over the Pacific.

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San Francisco Mauve is a muted mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

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San Francisco Mauve

San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the 17th-most populous city and second-densest large city in the United States, with a population of 826,079 in 2025. It is the fourth-largest city in California. Some 4.6 million residents live in the city's metropolitan statistical area, which is the 13th-largest in the United States. Around 9.2 million live in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth-largest in the United States. San Francisco is a global center for technology and finance, and is well-known for its affluence, eclectic architecture, and mild climate.

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Francisco

Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name Franciscus.

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Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

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san

Symbol

  1. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sanskrit.

Noun

  1. An Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma.
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mauve

Noun

  1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
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