Matte

Low-sheen, with diffuse rather than specular reflection.

Where Matte sits among every term. Drag to turn; choose a dot to open it.

How it connects

Matte relates to Honed.

In other taxonomies

MatteUniclass, PC_35_60_50nearly the same

In 7 of the 7 examples

For developersRecord, identifiers and graph

Where it sits

One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term

Matte

6 terms, Dead matte to Glossy

Record

Rung: 2 / 7Above Dead matte, below Eggshell. Positions on this scale mean nothing against another one.
Provenance: vendoredms_sheen, a sheen dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05), read 27 Aug 2026

For machines

Permanent address

/id/finish/sheen/matte

This termGET /v1/concepts/finish/sheen/matte
The word, every meaningGET /v1/term/matte

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Knowledge graph

Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.

has-conceptFinishincoming
has-conceptSheenincoming
belongs-to-axisFinishoutgoing
belongs-to-facetSheenoutgoing
related-toHonedoutgoing
related-toHonedincoming

Crosswalks

External mappings and dated negative results for Matte
Scheme	Identifier	Their label, or the search	How close
Uniclass	PC_35_60_50	Matte	nearly the same