Color Names

Smoky Mauve

Faded purple, as if last century's mauve dye got lost in a fog.

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Smoky Mauve is a cool grey, close to purple.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Smoky Mauve

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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smoky

Adjective

  1. Filled with smoke.
  2. Filled with or enveloped in tobacco smoke.
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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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