Ecru (colour)

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Ecru
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CDB891
RGBa	(r, g, b)	(205, 184, 145)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(39°, 29%, 80%)
a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Ecru describes the shade grayish-pale yellow or a light grayish-yellowish brown.

It is often used to describe such fabrics as silk and linen in their unbleached state.

Ecru comes from the French word écru, which means literally 'raw' or 'unbleached'.

In the 1930s and before, ecru was considered to be the same color as beige (a synonym or alias for beige), but now ecru and beige are regarded as two different colors.

				Shades of yellow
Amber	Beige	Buff	Corn	Cream	Dark Goldenrod	Ecru	Flax	Gamboge	Golden
Goldenrod	Khaki	Lemon	Lemon Cream	Lime	Mustard	Navajo white	Old Gold	Olive	Papaya whip
Peach-yellow	Pear	Saffron	School bus yellow	Selective yellow	Tangerine yellow	Yellow	Apricot	Metallic Gold	Chartreuse yellow