Cream (colour)

Cream
Cream
Colour coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFFDD0
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 253, 208)
HSV (h, s, v)	(57°, 18%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(98, 33, 84°)
Source	Maerz and Paul
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Cream is the colour of the cream produced by cattle grazing on natural pasture with plants rich in yellow carotenoid pigments, some of which are incorporated into the light, to give a yellow tone to white. Cream is the pastel colour of yellow, much like as pink is to red. By mixing yellow and white, cream can be produced.

The first recorded use of cream as a colour name in English was in 1590.^[1]

Cream in nature

Birds

The cream-coloured courser
The cream-coloured woodpecker

Mammals

The cream-coloured giant squirrel

Cream in human culture

Art

Cream is used as a skin tone in some forms of art, mostly anime.

Clothing

Men's white tuxedo jackets are usually a shade of cream or ivory to better stand out against the white dress shirt.

Interior design

The colour cream is widely used as one of the off-white colours in interior design.

Sports

The University of Nebraska Cornhuskers official colours are scarlet and cream.
The University of Oklahoma Sooners official colours are crimson and cream.

References

^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 206; Colour Sample of Cream: Page 41 Plate 9 Colour Sample D4 The colour shown above matches the colour sample in the book.

[1] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 206; Colour Sample of Cream: Page 41 Plate 9 Colour Sample D4 The colour shown above matches the colour sample in the book.

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