SEPIA (SEE-pee-uh)
A
dark brown ink or pigment
Common clues: Dark
brown ink; Brown tint; Old photo color; Photo tone; Retro photo;
Old-timey tone
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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 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.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Sepia (color)".
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