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
Lavender (color) or a "light pinkish purple". The term "lavender" may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light or greyish purples but only on the pink side. Lilac is pale purple on the blue side. In paints, the colour lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint. The first recorded use of the word "lavender" as a color term in English was in 1705. Originally, the name "lavender" only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book "A Dictionary of Color" identified three major shades of lavender—"[floral] lavender", "lavender gray", and "lavender blue", and in addition