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the color of memory, squeezed from a panicked cuttlefish's getaway ink.
means A reddish-brown color, especially the warm brown tone of old photographs and faded ink.
from From the Greek 'sēpia,' meaning cuttlefish — the original sepia pigment was made from the dark ink these creatures release to cloud the water and escape. Artists and early photographers prized that brown ink for drawings and tinting, and the color's name stuck even after the actual cuttlefish was no longer involved.
- origin
- Real pigment from cuttlefish ink sacs
- latin
- Sepia is Latin for cuttlefish
- old masters
- Da Vinci sketched in genuine sepia
- fake nostalgia
- Old photos faded brown; we now add it deliberately
- chemistry
- Original ink lasts centuries, resisting fade
for instance
sepia tone photography — brown-tinted photographic process popular from 1850s-1920s, used by photographers like matthew brady
sepia cuttlefish — marine cephalopod that produces sepia ink, found in mediterranean and atlantic waters