indigo

(noun)

A purplish-blue color.

Related Terms

  • Hausa
  • pit

Examples of indigo in the following topics:

  • Color Schemes

    • The spectrum of colors consists of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, in that order.
    • It's best used with either warm colors (such as red, orange and yellow) or cool colors (such as blue and indigo), creating an aesthetic that has a certain temperature as well as proper color harmony.
  • Basic Color Vocabulary

    • The spectrum of colors contained in white light consists of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, in that order.
  • Cloth Production in Bamum

    • The Bamum also imported indigo-dyed raffia-sewn cloth from the Hausa to be used as royal cloth.
  • Yoruba Artwork in the transAfrican Context

    • The traditional art forms among the Yoruba include beading, braiding, tattooing, clay molding and ceramic work, bronze casting, weaving and dyeing (such as the traditional adire indigo-dyed cloth), sculpting, and many other forms.
  • Color

    • The spectrum of colors contained in white light are, in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
  • Illustrated Books in the Early Middle Ages

    • However, the pigments for the illustrations, which included red and yellow ochre, green copper pigment (sometimes called verdigris), indigo, and lapis lazuli, were very costly and precious.
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