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  2. The history and meaning behind Easter's pastel palette - AOL

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    From mint green and sunny yellows to pale pink, read on for the dye-lights of this spring holiday and find out what various Easter-related hues symbolize.

  3. Pastel (color) - Wikipedia

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    Pastel sticks historically tended to have lower saturation than paints of the same pigment, hence the name of this color family. The colors of this family are usually described as "soothing." [ 3 ] Pink , mauve , [ 4 ] and baby blue [ 5 ] are commonly used pastel colors, as are mint green , peach , periwinkle , lilac , and lavender .

  4. Shades of pink - Wikipedia

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    Displayed here is the color baby pink, a light shade of pink. The first recorded use of baby pink as a color name in English was in 1928. [13] In Western culture, baby pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys (but see also the section Pink in gender in the main article on pink.)

  5. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    In formal color theory, purple colors often refer to the colors on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram (or colors that can be derived from colors on the line of purples), i.e., any color between red and violet, not including either red or violet themselves. [7] [8] The first recorded use of purple as a color name in English was ...

  6. Gendered associations of pink and blue - Wikipedia

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    This feminine turn of children's consumer culture came with its own official color: pink. Pink reigned supreme as marketing campaigns utilized what was perceived to be a 'strong association' between gender and certain color palettes. Bold colors conveyed maleness while pastel colors signals femininity. When single colors were used, companies ...

  7. List of monochrome and RGB color formats - Wikipedia

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    Systems with a 12-bit RGB palette use 4 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (2 4) 3 = 16 3 = 4096-color palette. 12-bit color can be represented with three hexadecimal digits, also known as shorthand hexadecimal form, which is commonly used in web design. The palette is as follows:

  8. Shades of rose - Wikipedia

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    Since the color rose is so well loved in Persia , some shades of rose are named after Persia, such as the light tone of rose of this color called Persian pink. This color is very popular in women's fashion. The first recorded use of Persian pink as a color name in English was in 1922. [3]

  9. Color scheme - Wikipedia

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    This color scheme is the most varied color scheme because it uses six colors which are arranged into three complementary color pairs, or it could be seen as two color schemes that are complimentary to each other—such as two triadic color schemes or two near-analogous color schemes—or adding a complementary pair to a rectangular tetradic ...