Cream (colour)

Short description: Colour

Cream
Colour coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFFDD0
Source	Maerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light yellow green

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 fresh milk (specifically, the butterfat). This gives a yellow tone to otherwise-white milk at higher fat concentrations (so the colour of dairy cream could be considered partway between the colours of natural cow’s milk and butter). Cream is the pastel colour of yellow, much as pink is to red. By mixing yellow and white, cream can be produced.

Strawberries with cream

The first recorded use of cream as a colour name in English was in 1590.

In nature

Birds

• The cream-coloured courser
• The cream-coloured woodpecker

Mammals

• The cream-coloured giant squirrel

In human culture

Art

• Cream is used as a skin tone in some forms of art, mostly anime. It is also used to describe the general skin tone of East and South East Asia.

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 Indiana University Bloomington Hoosiers' official colours are cream and crimson.
• The University of Nebraska Cornhuskers' official colours are scarlet and cream.
• The University of Oklahoma Sooners' official colours are crimson and cream.
• Club América's original colours are cream and blue, before switching to yellow and blue.
• Universitario de Deportes' official colours are cream and burgundy.
• Sport Club Corinthians Paulista's first uniform featured cream shirts before switching definitively to white shirts (due to a washing up error), which were kept since then.

See also

• List of colours
• Tints and shades

References

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