Pastel

Pastel

A light, pale or washed-out colour.

In computing a pastel colour is one where the red, green and blue components of the colour are all at least 50%.

For example:

	non pastel	pastel
red
green
blue
fuchsia
yellow
aqua

For more information see:

• http://everything.explained.at/Pastel/ - Pastel colours explained.