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[Color] [the RAL color] {{infobox color |title=Beige |hex=F5F5DC |source=X11
|isccname=Pale yellow green}}
BEIGE ([b] [BAY-ZH]) 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]
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 1855–1860; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel
_[fr]_ 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.[date=January 2021]
Beige is also a popular color in clothing, such as for men's trousers, as well
as for interior design.
** Various beige colors
{{infobox color |title=Cosmic latte |hex=FFF8E7 |source=pha.jhu.edu (see
https://web.archive.org/web/20060104173304/http://www.pha.jhu.edu:80/~kgb/cosspec/)
[7] |isccname=Pale yellow green}}
*** Cosmic latte
[Cosmic latte]
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.
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{{Infobox color |title=Cream |hex=FFFDD0 |isccname=Light yellow green}}
*** Cream
[Cream (colour)]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. The first
recorded use of _cream_ as a color name in English was in 1590.[8]
[Clear]{{infobox color |title=Unbleached silk |hex=FFDDCA |source=JTC
|isccname=Pale orange yellow}}
*** Unbleached silk
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.[9][10] The name of this color in Japanese is _[ja-latn]_.
[Clear]{{infobox color |title=Tuscan |hex=FAD6A5 |source=ISCC-NBS[11]
|isccname=Light yellow}}
*** Tuscan
[Tuscan red] The first recorded use of Tuscan as a color name in English was
in 1887.[12]
[Clear]{{infobox color |title=Buff |hex=DAA06D |spelling=color |isccname=Light
yellow }}
*** Buff
[Buff (colour)] Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the
color of buffed leather.[13] 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".[14]
[Clear]{{infobox color |title=Desert sand |hex=EDC9AF |source=Crayola
|isccname=Pale orange yellow}}
*** Desert sand
[Desert sand (color)] 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.[15]
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". [Clear]{{infobox color |title=Ecru |hex=C2B280
|spelling=Color |source=ISCC-NBS[16] |isccname=Grayish yellow}}
*** Ecru
[Ecru] 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),[17] 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 _[fr]_,
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.[18] [Clear]{{infobox color |title=
Khaki |hex= C3B091 |source=HTML/CSS |isccname=Grayish yellow }}
*** Khaki
[Khaki]
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.[19]
[Clear]{{infobox color |title=French beige |hex=A67B5B |source=ISCC-NBS[20]
|isccname=Light brown}}
*** French beige
{{Infobox color | title=Light French beige | hex=C8AD7F | source=Pourpre.com
(see http://pourpre.com/fr/dictionnaire/file/beige) | isccname=Grayish yellow
}}The first recorded use of FRENCH BEIGE as a color name in English was in
1927.[21]
The normalized color coordinates for French beige are identical to café au
lait and Tuscan tan, which were first recorded as color names in English in
1839[22] and 1926,[23] respectively. [Clear]{{infobox color |title=Mode beige
|hex=967117 |source=ISCC-NBS[24] |isccname=Light olive brown}}
*** Mode beige
_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.[25]
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,[26] 1925,[27] and 1930.[28]
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** In nature
FISH
- Beige catshark
MAMMAL
- Beige rabbit
** In culture
*** Personal computers
[Beige box]
In the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, personal computers and other office
electronics were often colored beige. The trend began in Germany, where
workplaces commonly required beige- or gray-colored equipment, and later
spread worldwide. Beige's popularity was superseded by black starting in the
1990s, with the release of black computers like the IBM ThinkPad.[29]
*** Metaphor
Beige is sometimes used as a metaphor for something which is bland, boring,
conventional, or even sad. In this sense, it is used in contradistinction to
more vibrant and exciting (or more individual) colors.[30]
** See also
- The Beige Room
- Drab (color)
- Lists of colors
- Shades of white
- RAL 1001 Beige
** References
[reflist]
** External links
[ecru] [beige]
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