Color Names

Spanish Bistre

Sooty, muted earth, like the pigment made from beechwood smoke.

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Spanish Bistre is a muted olive, close to brown.

It can be described as muted, mellow, dull and fairly saturated.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Spanish Bistre

Bistre

Bistre is a pigment made from soot. Historically, beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their wash paintings.[1] Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.

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spanish

Verb

  1. To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material
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bistre

Noun

  1. A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood.
  2. A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.
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