Patent ID: 8920910

Claim:
A structurally colored body that exhibits color using interference, diffraction and scattering of light, and without using pigments including colorants and dyes, the structurally colored body being configured by a plurality of cells, each cell having a plurality of grooves so as to structurally exhibit a single color, wherein the cells are adjacently arranged without overlapping each other, each groove has a depth in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the structurally colored body, a non-structurally colored portion is arranged between adjacent cells, the non-structurally colored portion having an uprising wall which extends in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the structurally colored body, and for each cell, a distance H 2 from a bottom of the grooves of the cell to a vertex of the non-structurally colored portion is greater than a distance H 1 from the bottom of the grooves of the cell to a vertex of the grooves of the cell, and the distances H 1 and H 2 are measured in the same direction, whereby the uprising wall prevents a hand from directly touching the grooves of the cell when the surface of the structural colored body is touched with the hand.