Colours made from ochre
3 colours that our sources say are made from ochre.
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Red
A long wavelength of light linked to blood, luck, and revolution.Basic colour · 🇪🇬 Egypt +5
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Yellow
A bright spectral shade found in sunlight, autumn foliage, and ancient earth pigments.Colour named from nature · 🇫🇷 France +5
Yellow
Attic ochre
A prized bright yellow ochre once mined near Athens for art and fine decorationPigment · 🇬🇷 Greece
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Attic ochre: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Yellow: Mark Robinson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Red: Sander van der Wel, CC BY-SA 2.0, source