Color
Beige
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Hex triplet
| #F5F5DC
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
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b
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| (245, 245, 220)
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HSV
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h
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s
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v
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| (60°, 10%, 96%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
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C
,
h
)
| (96, 19, 86°)
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Source
| X11
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Pale yellow green
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Beige
is the French word for the color of natural
wool
(freshly shorn example at the
Royal Winter Fair
).
Beige
is variously described as a pale sandy fawn
color
,
[1]
a grayish tan,
[2]
a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow.
[3]
It takes its name from
French
, where the word originally meant natural
wool
that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.
[4]
[5]
A more than 300 year old antecessor of the word "beige" can be found in the surname of
Louis de Bechameil
and the French name for
Bechamel sauce
.
The word "beige" has come to be used to describe a variety of light
tints
chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
Beige
began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855?60; the writer
Edmond de Goncourt
used it in the novel
La Fille Elisa
in 1877. The first recorded use of
beige
as a color name in
English
was in 1887.
[6]
Beige is notoriously difficult to produce in traditional offset
CMYK
printing because of the low levels of inks used on each plate; often it will print in purple or green and vary within a print run.
[
citation needed
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Various beige colors
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Cosmic latte
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Cosmic latte
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Hex triplet
| #FFF8E7
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
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b
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| (255, 248, 231)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (42°, 9%, 100%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
,
C
,
h
)
| (98, 15, 70°)
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Source
| Internet
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Pale yellow green
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Cosmic latte is a name assigned in 2002 to the average color of the
universe
(derived from a sampling of the
electromagnetic radiation
from 200,000
galaxies
), given by a team of
astronomers
from
Johns Hopkins University
.
Cream
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Cream
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Hex triplet
| #FFFDD0
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
,
b
)
| (255, 253, 208)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (57°, 18%, 100%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
,
C
,
h
)
| (98, 33, 84°)
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Source
| [
Unsourced
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Light yellow green
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Cream is the color of the
cream
produced by
cattle
grazing on natural
pasture
with plants rich in yellow
carotenoid
pigments, some of which are incorporated into the cream, to give a
yellow
tone to
white
.
Strawberries
with vanilla ice cream
The first recorded use of
cream
as a color name in
English
was in 1590.
[7]
Unbleached silk
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Unbleached silk
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Hex triplet
| #FFDDCA
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
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b
)
| (255, 221, 202)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (22°, 21%, 100%)
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CIELCh
uv
(
L
,
C
,
h
)
| (90, 29, 40°)
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Source
| JTC
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Pale orange yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Unbleached silk
is one of the
Japanese traditional colors
in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various
dyes
that are used in designing
kimonos
.
[8]
[9]
Unbleached silk jacket
The name of this color in
Japanese
is
shironeri
.
Tuscan
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Tuscan
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Hex triplet
| #FAD6A5
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sRGB
B
(
r
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g
,
b
)
| (250, 214, 165)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (35°, 34%, 98%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
,
C
,
h
)
| (88, 47, 56°)
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Source
| ISCC-NBS
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Light yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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The first recorded use of Tuscan as a color name in English was in 1887.
[10]
Buff
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Buff
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Hex triplet
| #DAA06D
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
,
b
)
| (218, 160, 109)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (28°, 50%, 85%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
,
C
,
h
)
| (70, 60, 43°)
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Source
| [
Unsourced
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Light yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Buff is a pale yellow-
brown
color that got its name from the color of buffed
leather
.
[11]
Buff is the color of fine undyed leathers.
According to the
Oxford English Dictionary
, buff as a descriptor of a color was first used in the
London Gazette
of 1686, describing a uniform to be "A Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining".
[12]
Desert sand
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Desert sand
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Hex triplet
| #EDC9AF
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
,
b
)
| (237, 201, 175)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (25°, 26%, 93%)
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CIELCh
uv
(
L
,
C
,
h
)
| (83, 34, 44°)
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Source
| Crayola
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Pale orange yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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The color desert sand may be regarded as a deep shade of beige. It is a pale tint of a color called
desert
. The color name "desert" was first used in 1920.
[13]
A "beige" AT&T telephone.
In the 1960s, the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
(AT&T) marketed desert sand?colored telephones for offices and homes. However, they described the color as "beige". It is therefore common for many people to refer to the color desert sand as "beige".
Ecru
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Ecru
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Hex triplet
| #C2B280
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
,
b
)
| (194, 178, 128)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (45°, 34%, 76%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
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C
,
h
)
| (73, 39, 71°)
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Source
| ISCC-NBS
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Grayish yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Originally in the 19th century and up to at least 1930, the color ecru meant exactly the same color as beige (i.e. the pale cream color shown above as beige),
[14]
and the word is often used to refer to such fabrics as silk and linen in their unbleached state. Ecru comes from the French word
ecru
, which means literally "raw" or "unbleached".
Since at least the 1950s, however, the color ecru has been regarded as a different color from beige, presumably in order to allow
interior designers
a wider palette of colors to choose from.
[15]
Khaki
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Khaki
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Hex triplet
| #C3B091
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
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b
)
| (195, 176, 145)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (37°, 26%, 76%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
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C
,
h
)
| (73, 28, 61°)
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Source
| HTML/CSS
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Grayish yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Khaki
was designated in the 1930 book
A Dictionary of Color
, the standard for color nomenclature before the introduction of computers.
The first recorded use of
khaki
as a color name in English was in 1848.
[16]
French beige
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French beige
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Hex triplet
| #A67B5B
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
,
b
)
| (166, 123, 91)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (26°, 45%, 65%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
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C
,
h
)
| (55, 41, 41°)
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Source
| ISCC-NBS
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Light brown
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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The first recorded use of
French beige
as a color name in English was in 1927.
[17]
The
normalized color coordinates
for French beige are identical to
cafe au lait
and
Tuscan tan
, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839
[18]
and 1926,
[19]
respectively.
Light French beige
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Hex triplet
| #C8AD7F
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
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b
)
| (200, 173, 127)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (38°, 36%, 78%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
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C
,
h
)
| (72, 41, 60°)
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Source
| Pourpre.com
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Grayish yellow
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Mode beige
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Mode beige
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Hex triplet
| #967117
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sRGB
B
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r
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g
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b
)
| (150, 113, 23)
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HSV
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h
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s
,
v
)
| (43°, 85%, 59%)
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CIELCh
uv
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L
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C
,
h
)
| (50, 58, 58°)
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Source
| ISCC-NBS
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ISCC?NBS descriptor
| Light olive brown
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B
: Normalized to [0?255] (byte)
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Mode beige
is a very dark shade of beige.
The first recorded use of
mode beige
as a color name in English was in 1928.
[20]
The normalized color coordinates for mode beige are identical to the color names
drab
,
sand dune
, and
bistre brown
, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686,
[21]
1925,
[22]
and 1930.
[23]
In nature
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Fish
Mammal
Metaphor
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Beige is sometimes used as a metaphor for something which is bland, boring or conventional. In this sense, it is used in contradistinction to more vibrant and exciting (or more individual) colors.
[24]
See also
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References
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- ^
Oxford English Dictionary
- ^
Webster's New World Dictionary of the English Language,
1964
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Macmillan On-Line Dictionary.
- ^
Le Petit Robert Dictionnaire
.
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Harper, Douglas.
"beige"
.
Online Etymology Dictionary
.
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Maerz and Paul (1930).
A Dictionary of Colour
. New York, McGraw-Hill, p. 190; Color Sample of Beige: p. 45 Plate 11 Color Sample C2. The color shown above matches the color sample in the book.
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 206; Color Sample of Cream: p. 41 Plate 9 Color Sample D4 The color shown above matches the color sample in the book.
- ^
Nagasaki, Seiki.
Nihon no dentoshoku : sono shikimei to shikicho
, Seigensha, 2001.
ISBN
4-916094-53-0
- ^
Nihon Shikisai Gakkai.
Shinpen shikisai kagaku handobukku
, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1985.
ISBN
4-13-061000-7
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 206; Color Sample of Tuscan: p. 43 Plate 10 Color Sample E5
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Paterson, Ian (2003),
A Dictionary of Colour
(1st paperback ed.), London: Thorogood (published 2004), p. 73,
ISBN
1-85418-375-3
,
OCLC
60411025
- ^
"buff, adj.1"
.
Oxford English Dictionary
. OUP
. Retrieved
21 April
2011
.
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill p. 194; Color Sample of Desert: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample I7
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 149?Discussion of the color Beige (shown in this book's color sample as being the same color that is displayed as "beige" in the Wikipedia color box shown above) notes that beige is exactly the same color as Ecru.
- ^
"ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names (1955): Ea through Ez"
.
Retsof
. Archived from
the original
on 2012-11-22
. Retrieved
2007-10-23
.
[
unreliable source?
]
- ^
Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 197; Color Sample of Khaki: p. 49 Plate 13 Color Sample J7
- ^
Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 195; Color Sample of French beige: p. 49 Plate 13 Color Sample A7
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 191; Color Sample of Cafe au Lait: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample A6
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 206; Color Sample of Tuscan tan: p. 49 Plate 13 Color Sample C8
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 199; Color Sample of Mode Beige: p. 47 Plate 14 Color Sample B5
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 194
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 204; Color Sample of Sand Dune: p. 47 Plate 14 Color Sample B5
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Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color
New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill p. 53 Plate 15 Color Sample C9
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St. Clair, Kassia (2016).
The Secret Lives of Colour
. London: John Murray. pp. 58?59.
ISBN
9781473630819
.
OCLC
936144129
.
External links
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Look up
ecru
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Look up
beige
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.
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