Buff (colour)

Buff (Latin: bubalinus)^[2]^[3] is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather.^[4]^[5] Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white:^[6] two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.^[7]

As an RYB quaternary colour, it is the colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colours citron and russet.^[8]

^ "Convertor from RYB to RGB". PaintAssistant. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2012. RGB approximations of RYB tertiary colours, using cubic interpolation. The colours displayed here are substantially paler than the true colours a mixture of paints would produce.
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