Ecru

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This article is about the color. For the town in Mississippi, see Ecru, Mississippi.

Ecru
Colour coordinates
Hex triplet	#C2B280
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(194, 178, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)	(39°, 27%, 77%)
Source	Source:ISCC-NBS
B:Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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Ecru describes the shade greyish-pale yellow or a light greyish-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 colour as the colour beige (a synonym or alias for beige), but since the 1950s ecru and beige have been regarded as two different colours.

Source of colour: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Ecru (colour sample #90):

Uses

Sports

Uruguayan club Barrio Sur F.C. wear ecru colour as their away kit.
English clubs Liverpool F.C. and West Ham United had ecru shirts as part of their away kits in the 1996/97 season.

Television

In the episode "The Second Time Around" of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which first aired February 1, 2010, not wanting to wear white, Betty decides she wants to wear an "ecru" wedding dress.

v t e Shades of yellow
Amber	Apricot	Beige	Buff	Cream	Dark goldenrod	Ecru	Gold	Gold (metallic)	Goldenrod

Green-yellow	Jasmine	Jonquil	Khaki	Lemon chiffon	Lime	Lion	Maize	Mikado yellow	Naples yellow

Navajo white	Olive	Papaya whip	Saffron	School bus yellow	Selective yellow	Stil de grain yellow	Sunglow	Vanilla	Light Yellow

Yellow

The samples shown above are only indicative.

v t e Shades of brown
Auburn	Beaver	Beige	Bistre	Bole	Bronze	Brown	Buff	Burgundy	Burnt sienna

Burnt umber	Camel	Chamoisee	Chestnut	Chocolate	Citrine	Coffee	Copper	Cordovan	Desert sand

Earth yellow	Ecru	Fallow	Fawn	Field drab	Fulvous	Isabelline	Khaki	Lion	Liver

Mahogany	Maroon	Ochre	Raw umber	Redwood	Rufous	Russet	Rust	Sand	Sandy brown

Seal brown	Sepia	Sienna	Sinopia	Tan	Taupe	Tawny	Umber	Wenge	Wheat

The samples shown above are only indicative.