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Color:
Butter


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Colors with the same hue:
Antique bronze
Peat
Muddy Yellow
Brass
Citrine
Turmeric
Dingy Yellow
Vivid yellow
Middle yellow
Dazzling Yellow
Aureolin
Banana
Buttercup
Flax
Buff
Shandy
Vanilla
Soft White
Morning Mist
Buttermilk
Perlino
Parchment
Eggshell
Cornsilk
Similar colors:
Vanilla
Buttermilk
Blonde
Custard
Palomino
Sallow
Peach
Wheat
Cream
Very pale yellow
Faded Yellow
Cornsilk
Light Sand
Bleached White
Pearl
Parchment
Oat
Eggshell
Blanched almond
Flax
Buff
Deep champagne
Sunset
Wan White
Pale Yellow
Champagne
Oyster
Ecru
Sand
Dun
Words evoked by this color:
churn,  shortening,  buttered,  vanilla,  frosting,  icecream,  ice_cream,  scoop,  scooped,  flavoring,  cake,  pudding,  roti,  wheaton,  navaho,  navajo,  hogan,  nan,  brigitte,  hairdresser,  bouffant,  perm,  coiffure,  keratin,  hair,  hairdo,  hairstyle,  braid,  marilyn,  haired,  ponytail,  wig,  emerge,  burgeoning,  undressed,  undressing,  fingertip,  revealing,  make-up,  make_up,  makeup,  apricot,  apricate,  oyster,  miracle,  impearled,  bivalve,  pearly,  abalone,  mollusk
Literary analysis:
In literature the color “butter” is sometimes invoked as a subtle indicator of tone and quality beyond its literal edible meaning. For example, one passage contrasts butter enriched with added coloring against the “natural white butter of the goat,” using the hue to evoke a sense of visual appeal and sumptuousness [1]. Similarly, another reference draws attention to the pristine, almost stark whiteness of goat’s milk butter—emphasizing purity and a distinctive color quality that can stand in contrast to the common creamy yellows associated with traditional butter [2]. In these instances, authors use the color connotations of butter to deepen sensory detail and to evoke a broader atmosphere of warmth and domestic comfort.
  1. It looks like good butter and, with the added coloring matter, more palatable than the natural white butter of the goat.
    — from Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska by Rockwell Kent
  2. Butter is now and then made of goat's milk; but it is very strong, and quite as white as that made of the milk of the rein-deer.
    — from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 2 by Carl von Linné


Colors associated with the word:
Buttercream
Buttercup
Butter
Words with similar colors:
pone,  margarine,  madeleine,  gratin,  schmaltz,  corn,  chick,  daffodil,  custard,  21-22,  out,  bluebird,  arise,  off,  down,  lot,  bear,  time,  with,  over
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