Ash
- HEX
- #B2BEB5
- RGB
- 178 190 181
- HSL
- 135° 8% 72%
- CMYK
- 6 0 5 25
Ash or Silver?
Silver with a faint green-grey cast.
After wood ash.
Symbolism
On Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, many Western Christians are marked with ash made by burning the palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday. The traditional words come from Genesis: 'Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.' See liturgical-colors.
Kin
- Charcoal: What burning leaves behind: ash if fully burned, charcoal if not
- Purple: Lent begins with ashes, and the Church wears violet through it
In paintings
- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
- The Fighting Temeraire, J. M. W. Turner
Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Ash Wednesday' (palms; formula; Urban II, 1091)
- Genesis 3:19
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