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beige
Beige is a term used for a range of pale brownish or yellowish colors. It is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color,〔''Oxford English Dictionary''〕 a grayish tan,〔''Webster's New World Dictionary of the English Language,'' 1964〕 a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow.〔Macmillan On-Line Dictionary.〕 It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has not been bleached nor dyed, and hence also the color of natural wool.〔''Le Petit Robert Dictionnaire''.〕 It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
''Beige'' was used as a color term in the modern sense in France beginning approximately 1855-60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel ''La Fille Elisa'' in 1877. The first recorded use of ''beige'' as a color name in English was in 1887.〔Maerz and Paul (1930). ''A Dictionary of Colour''. New York, McGraw-Hill, page 190; Color Sample of Beige: Page 45 Plate 11 Color Sample C2. The color shown above matches the color sample in the book.〕
Beginning in the 1920s, the meaning of ''beige'' expanded so that it is now also used not only for pale yellowish-brown colors, but also for a wide range of pale brown and light brown shades. Some of more notable of these tints and shades are shown below.
Beige is notoriously difficult to produce in traditional offset CMYK printing due to the low levels of inks used on each plate; often it will print in purple or green and vary within a print run.
==Variations of beige==
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