Indigo
Color of the Week! History, Interior Design & Color Palette
“True Indigo”
The color indigo originally comes from the indigo plant, a small shrub with pink blooms. The two main species are Indigofera tinctora and Indigofera suffroticosa.
These plants contain a compound called “indican”, which, when processed, produces the deep blue dye we know as indigo. This is what the pigment looks like:
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