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Colours of Borneo

1 colour tied to Borneo, Malaysia: made there, traded there or named after it.

Purple and violet Mangosteen purple The deep reddish-purple of ripe mangosteen fruit rindColour named from nature · 🇲🇾 Malaysia +4

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Mangosteen purple: VpuipV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.