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Family of pale colors
This article is about the color family. For the art medium, see
Pastel .
Pastel
Pastel sticks in a variety of colors
Soothing
Pastels or pastel colors belong to a
pale family of colors, which, when described in the
HSV color space , have high
value and low
saturation .
[1]
[2] They are named after
an artistic medium made from pigment and solid binding agents, similar to
crayons . 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 . Pastel colors are common in the
kawaii aesthetic.
Examples of pastels in HEX-code
fea3aa
f8b88b
faf884
baed91
b2cefe
f2a2e8
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ISBN
9781600613180 . Retrieved July 27, 2013 .
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"Principles of Light, Vision, and Photometry" . In Whitaker, Jerry C. (ed.). The Electronics Handbook . Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press. p. 85.
ISBN
9780849383458 . Retrieved July 27, 2013 .
^ Clark, Sally (2003). House Beautiful Magazine (ed.).
House Beautiful Color: Bright Ideas for Every Room . New York: Sterling Publishing Company. p. 27.
ISBN
9781588162519 .
OCLC
61439232 . Retrieved July 22, 2013 .
^ McCarthy, Michael; Felicity O'Dell (2002).
English Vocabulary in Use (Advanced) . Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press . p. 154.
ISBN
9780521653978 .
OCLC
49550686 . Retrieved July 27, 2013 .
^ Weber, Jeanette (1990).
Clothing: Fashion, Fabrics, Construction .
McGraw-Hill Education.
ISBN
9780026401616 .