Color Names

Virtual Taupe

Not quite the real thing: a simulated mole colour, a little worn and faded.

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Virtual Taupe is a warm grey.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Virtual Taupe

Taupe

Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.

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virtual

Adjective

  1. In effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality; also, imitated, simulated.
  2. For practical purposes, though not technically; almost complete, very near.

Noun

  1. Preceded by the: that which is imitated or simulated rather than existing in fact or reality; an instance of this.
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taupe

Noun

  1. A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

Adjective

  1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
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