Buff (colour) Buff (colour) Buff is the pale orange-brown colour of the undyed leather of several animals. As an RYB quaternary colour, it is the colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colours citron and russet. The first recorded use of the word "buff" to describe a colour was in "The London Gazette" of 1686, describing a uniform to be "...a Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining". It referred to the colour of undyed buffalo leather, such as soldiers wore as some protection: an eyewitness to the death in the Battle of Edgehill (1642) of Sir Edmund Verney noted "he
Colour recovery the broadcast and release of colour-recovered episodes of "Dad's Army" and "Doctor Who". "Example of the chroma dot reconstruction:" Colour recovery Colour recovery (or colour restoration) is a process which can restore lost colour, specifically to television programmes which were originally transmitted from colour video tape, but for which only black & white copies remain archived. Not to be confused with colourisation, colour recovery is a newer process and is fundamentally different from colourisation for several reasons. Firstly, colour recovery can only be performed if the originally transmitted colour signal can be reconstructed or recovered from some source, whereas this