Beige Color - Color Psychology
Beige is used as shorthand for a variety of colors, from pale yellowish-brown to light brownish-gray. Officially, it’s a cream hue with a warm yellow tint. In France, the word originally referred to natural wool that had not been bleached or dyed. The French began using beige as a color word sometime in the 1850s. The new meaning was solidified by author Edmond de Goncourt in his 1877 novel, La Fille Elisa. Beige was later absorbed into the English language; the first documented English usage occurred in 1887. Historically there has been some confusion about the color beige. In the early 19th century, ecru–the color name derived from the French word for raw or unbleached–referred to exact same shade as beige. Around 1950, interior designers changed ecru to avoid mix-ups. Other colors that are often used interchangeably with beige include khaki, buff, ivory, off-white and desert sand. In the 1960s, AT&T debuted a desert sand colored telephone that they called beige, causing the ...