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The Sissinghurst interlude at Doddering Hall happens on the way to the Monet bridge (exact dimensions and hue matched from Giverny - he took measurements and a colour swatch).

The idea here is that just as paints are mixed to produce the range of colour swatches found in a hardware store so it should be possible for colours to be mixed in the mind in some kind of analogous way.

The plans have yet to include a single blueprint or color swatch.

Notice the dark green of the foreground color swatch.

Tom Ridge would have been better off fixating on this weakness than playing with his color swatches.

In fact the same paint color swatch with two different names produced different rating levels.

When she started out, she said, "there was one dyer, and he could never hit your color swatch."

This color swatch matches the color shown in the color box at right.

I then looked at color swatches.

When she glanced at the color swatch in her helmet, though, it had gone down from bright pink to a sultry auburn.

Chekov pulled another brightly colored swatch of cloth from his sash.

Pantone sent me a color swatch book.

Even color swatches and procedural textures are corrected.

The show takes its name from an international producer of color swatches, many of them in colors that are new and don't exist in nature.

The color swatches were pale but unobscured.

Pantone color swatches were used to match the pink and white exterior and interior paint.

The first sunny morning all week and the butterflies are out; a dozen varieties, a dozen different color swatches, flit by within half an hour.

Of color swatches.

The movie they have concocted has the feel of a visual sampler or an elaborate color swatch submitted for a design that remains largely unexecuted.

Stickers can be full-color images or greyscale images that are colorized by your current color swatch.

After this layer dries, the artist might then proceed by painting a "mosaic" of color swatches, working from darkest to lightest.

Other viewers show, for example, a color swatch for a Color, the image for an icon, and the binary details of a double.

We debated the merits of different N.H.L. jerseys as if we were discussing color swatches.

Designs of the fine-cut hooking genre use more fine shading accomplished by overdyeing wool in gradated color swatches.

He went home and got some color swatches, took a cab back to the restaurant and started flipping through the swatches, trying to match one to the wall.

New colored swatches at the top of this panel allow for better targeting of specific hues, and this new UI is generally a pleasure to use.

These spaces, such as Pantone, are in effect a given set of names or numbers which are defined by the existence of a corresponding set of physical color swatches.