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  2. 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.

  3. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.

  4. Pastel - Wikipedia

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    Leon Dabo, Flowers in a Green Vase, c. 1910s, pastel. A pastel (US: / p æ ˈ s t ɛ l /) is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder.It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms.

  5. 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.)

  6. List of software palettes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of software palettes used by computers. Systems that use a 4-bit or 8-bit pixel depth can display up to 16 or 256 colors simultaneously. Many personal computers in the early 1990s displayed at most 256 different colors, freely selected by software (either by the user or by a program) from their wider hardware's RGB color palette.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Munsell color system - Wikipedia

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    The Munsell color system, showing: a circle of hues at value 5 chroma 6; the neutral values from 0 to 10; and the chromas of purple-blue (5PB) at value 5. In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), value , and chroma (color intensity

  9. 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]