Ecru - Wikipedia

Color of unbleached linen or silk This article is about the colour. For the town in Mississippi, see Ecru, Mississippi.

Ecru
Colour coordinates
Hex triplet	#C2B280
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(194, 178, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)	(45°, 34%, 76%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(73, 39, 71°)
Source	ISCC-NBS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Grayish yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Ecru (/ˈɛkruː/ EK-roo, or /ˈeɪkruː/ AY-kroo) is a grayish yellow or cream colour. It initially indicated the colour of unbleached linen[2] (approximately #FEFEE0  ), and some English dictionaries still define it this way. However, over the years, it has also come to be used for a much darker color.

Ecru comes from the French word écru for the color of unbleached linen, and the word means "raw, unbleached" in French. It has also been known as "the colour of silk".

Traditionally, ecru was considered a shade of beige.[3] Beginning in the 19th century it became more precisely defined as "a grayish yellow that is greener and paler than chamois or old ivory".[4]

The normalized colour coordinates for ecru are identical to sand, which was first recorded as a colour name in English in 1627.[5]

See also

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• Lists of colors

References

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Citations

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1. ^ "Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names - Ea through Ez". 22 November 2012. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012.
2. ^ "ecru". Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). 1989. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
3. ^ Maerz & Paul (1930), p. 149
4. ^ Gove, Philip B., ed. (1961). "ecru". Merriam-Webster Unabridged. Springfield, Massachusetts. Retrieved 11 September 2020. First Known Use: 1836{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
5. ^ Maerz & Paul (1930), p. 203; color sample of sand: p. 49, plate 13, color sample B2

Bibliography

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• Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. LCCN 30016563. OCLC 1150631. There is a newer 1950 2nd edition, but both versions are collector's items that are difficult to find except via inter-library loan.

External links

[edit] Look up ecru in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) – "Color Sample of Ecru (colour sample #90)"

v t e Shades of yellow
Amber Apricot Arylide yellow Aureolin Beige Buff Canary Champagne Chartreuse Chrome yellow                     Citron Citrine Corn Cosmic latte Cream Dark goldenrod Ecru Flax Gamboge Gold                     Gold (metallic) Goldenrod Green earth Harvest gold Icterine Isabelline Ivory Jasmine Jonquil Khaki                     Lemon chiffon Lemon-lime Light yellow Lion Maize Marigold Mikado yellow Mindaro Mustard Naples yellow                     Navajo white Old gold Papaya whip Peach-yellow Pear Saffron School bus yellow Selective yellow Stil de grain yellow Straw                     Sunglow Sunset Vanilla Wheat Xanthic Yellow
A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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v t e Shades of gray
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