Sepia (color)
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| Hex triplet | #704214 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (112, 66, 20) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (30°, 82%, 44%) |
| Source | [Unsourced] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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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. 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.
Sepia is also used in photography; the color is associated with aged photographs as photographs treated with sepia are the only ones intact over many years. In this way, sepia is used as an archival preservation method.
The word sepia is Greek for "cuttlefish".
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