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a color that turned down the volume to whisper sweet nothings at you.
means A soft, pale shade of a color, produced by adding white or reducing saturation — or the chalky crayon-like medium used to make such tints.
from From French pastel, borrowed from Italian pastello, a diminutive of pasta — 'paste' — because the original artist's pastels were made by binding powdered pigment into a soft little paste and drying it into sticks. The same humble Latin pasta that gives us 'paste' and indeed 'pasta' sits at the root; the gentle hues we now call pastel got their name from the soft dough they were once ground from.
- latin root
- named from pasta, the paste binding the pigment
- degas obsession
- made over 700 pastel works, hoarding rare colors
- fragile medium
- pure pigment, no fixative, smudges with a breath
- baby code
- pink for boys until the 1940s flipped it
- easter monopoly
- these soft hues basically own springtime marketing
pastel de nata — portuguese custard tart from belém, lisbon, with crispy phyllo and creamy egg custard filling, protected by eu designation of origin
pastel de choclo — chilean savory pie with meat filling and corn topping, a national dish of chile