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Encyclopedia > Sepia (color)
Sepia
 
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #704214
RGB (r, g, b) (112, 66, 20)
CMYK (c, m, y, k) N (39, 69, 100, 41)
HSV (h, s, v) (30°, 82%, 44%)
  N: Normalised to [ 0–255 ] (changing to [0–100])

Sepia is a rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish, and it is also the name of a dark brown-grey color. Authors of web pages have a variety of options available for specifying colors for elements of web documents. ... The RGB color model utilizes the additive model in which red, green, and blue light are combined in various ways to create other colors. ... Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black) CMYK (or sometimes YMCK) is a subtractive color model used in color printing. ... The HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) model, also called HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness), defines a color space in terms of three constituent components: HSV color space as a color wheel Hue, the color type (such as red, blue, or yellow): Ranges from 0-360 (but normalized to 0-100% in some... Brown is a color produced by mixing small intensities of red and green, orange and blue, or yellow and purple pigment. ... In biology, pigment is any material resulting in color in plant or animal cells which is the result of selective absorption. ... Families Sepiadariidae Sepiidae Cuttlefish are animals of the order Sepiida, and are marine cephalopods, small relatives of squids and nautilus. ... For alternative meanings, see color (disambiguation). ...


Sepia was commonly used as writing ink in classical times. In the last quarter of the 18th century, Professor Jacob Seydelmann of Dresden developed a process to extract and produce a more concentrated form for use in watercolors and oil paints. Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ... Mona Lisa, Oil on wood panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci Oil painting is done on surfaces with pigment ground into a medium of oil - especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. ...


Sepia is also favored in photography; the color can be obtained with a gold toning bath. The reddishness we nostalgically associate with sepia is actually the result of fading over time. Consequently, sepia has become a very vaguely defined term. Lens and mounting of a large format camera Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. ...


The word sepia is Greek for "cuttlefish."


See also Sepia tone. Sepia tone is a type of monochrome photographic image in which the picture appears in shades of brown as opposed to greyscale as in a black-and-white image. ...


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Sepia (color) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (164 words)
Sepia is a rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish, and it is also the name of a dark brown-grey color.
Sepia was commonly used as writing ink in classical times.
Sepia is also favored in photography; the color can be obtained with a gold toning bath.
Rabbit Color Discriptions (3550 words)
Pewter Agouti Surface color to be dark smoke pearl over a white to pearl intermediate band with undercolor matching surface color as closely as possible.
Pearl Agouti Surface color to be smoke pearl over a white to pearl intermediate band with undercolor matching surface color as closely as possible.
Color to be as rich as possible and extend well down the hair shaft, may fade to white next to skin.
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