Ecru

Natural Colors is a collective term for very light shades of brown. In particular, it is the material property, which has the untreated, not colored product. The term " natural color " refers to the occurrence in nature, or natural products, for example as color of earth ( earth tones ), woods or spices (spice tones).

• 2.1 Beige
• 2.2 Sand colors
• 2.3 Isabellfarben
• 2.4 Ecru
• 2.5 Fawn
• 2.6 Chamois
• 2.7 Ivory
• 2.8 color names in the fashion industry

Color theory

Natural colors are pastel shades from the group of earth colors. It extends its width significantly muted white on recognizable (ie color shifts ) colorful, but still bright gray to warm, a little color rich shades. The shades range from almost yellow green to red, the gray levels have values ​​between 10% and 30 % saturations are below 50%.

Ecru

The material property natural color is used in deviation from the principal use in textile processing for the brownish dingy white of the raw material in contrast to the pure white bleached goods. The same applies to paper and plastics. In all three sectors the undyed is called " natural " product as an unspoilt natural color.

Heraldry

In heraldry, the term is " natural color " to describe " in natural colors " emblazoned Commons figures used. He is marked with the heraldic tincture (one of the primary colors purple, brown, gray ) that can replace him.

Color names

Color names such as light yellow gray, gray-brown, brown green gray are natural color for the property used. Since the distinction between different shades of natural colors in the language not very targeted and the colorimetric relationships are not easy, one uses for an abundance of common names. There are comparison names that refer to widespread natural materials.

• The colors of the wood is primarily domestic wood species are to call this: spruce, pine, beech, larch, but also the precious woods, mostly in light tones;
• Sand color: sahara, clay-colored
• Teigfarben: russet brown
• Eggshell
• Cream ( [ krɛm or kre ː m] )
• Tan, a color name comes from the English and " tanned " for communicating with the root word of tannin and a dyeing with natural materials
• Taupe
• Ivory ( colors )
• Ecru ( a creamy white )
• Fawn

This comparison names are not standardized within a color naming system and interpreted by region. The sand as a natural model of " beige ", depending on the iron content of the soils present more or less continuously to brown. How can assess different other colors in nature quite. The association with " self-evident " objects of everyday dealings in the course of time is not come in from the front consistently. In older literature is teigfarben judged significantly darker, which could be due to the earlier rarer use of refined white flour well. Secondly, the hue is eggshell on pronounced " brown eggs ", not to the milk-white pieces.

Color names such as beige, ecru, isabellfarben are mostly euphemistic terms that refer to "dirty" white. Apart from some basic concepts many natural color names are strongly influenced by the fashion industry and other industries with its annual design specifications. Fashion color names for natural color tones are now often used for lighter, less "dirty" colors.

Beige

The color Beige ( pronunciation [be ː ʃ ] ) comprises a sequence of ( indefinite) warm, whitish brown. The word itself comes from the French and has become established in the 19th century as a synonym for natural color. Colour BEIGE is not defined in the RAL color system under the number RAL 1001 binding. Then there are the nuances Green Beige RAL 1000 Beige brown RAL 1011, gray RAL 1019 and beige pearl beige RAL 1035th

Sand colors

The term sand colors called nonspecific reddish- white to yellowish- whitish color nuances in common parlance. The RAL 1002 shade is named sandy yellow.

Isabellfarben

With isabellfarben is usually referred to a shade corresponding to the color of milk coffees. The same rule applies the (inevitable ) inaccuracy of color names by comparison, since the proportion of milk in coffee affects the nuance.

This color name can be found particularly in zoology use to refer to the coat color of animals. Examples are isabellfarbene horses coat pattern of certain breeds and pen and ink drawings of various species of birds. Until the mid-1950s, cats were done in shades of brown as isabellfarben.

The color name to have been formed by the Spanish princess Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philip II and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands. This vowed that they had originally white shirt would rather not go to her husband, who had Archduke Albert VII of Habsburg, the city of Ostend, which he began to besiege 1601 conquered. As this siege lasted until 1604 three years, three months and three days is probably not to doubt the validity of the Sage in color. A variant of the legend connects the shirt of Queen Isabella the Catholic with the also three-year siege of Moorish Granada.

Ecru

Ecru or Germanized Ecru comes from the French word ecru for " unbleached ", " untreated". It refers (also called " Ekrüseide " ) and was later transferred to the light green shade of white substance on raw silk.

Fawn

Falb derives from the Latin flavescere " yellow " from. While it was still used in the 19th century in this sense, like Herder, " the leaves fallow so," it is now more yellow for German words and sallow used accordingly. Commonly, it is mainly used as color of horses, the so-called Fallows.

Chamois

Chamois is French and means " chamois " ( Middle High German Gamz ). It probably refers the color name, ie " like a bright suede ".

Ivory

Ivory is a special form of tooth structure of different animals, especially the elephant and fossil tusks of mammoths. The substance is different from human teeth. Still under the skin of ivory is a fine off-white like milk, but the aged by air contact is clearly braungelbstichig substance. Ivory is defined by RAL 1014 and RAL 1015 Light Ivory by. Until 2004, was prescribed as the color for taxis in Germany hellelfenbein law. RAL 1013, the similar pearly white, draws its name to the white lead pigment.

The color name " Ivory Black " goes back to the bone black, a dye that was originally derived from the absence of air annealed ivory.

Color names in the fashion industry

In the fashion industry are naturals in the environment of beige and light brown, ivory, red-brown and ocher to olive, often called metaphorically and atmospheric sonorous. Examples of such names are curry, honey, caramel, sand, milk coffee, corn, chocolate, cocoa, tobacco, cognac, copper, brass, chestnut, mustard, camel. Here, the names of the colors are often resolved much of the eponymous "nature" in favor of the effective term. Fanciful names are grouped to a fashion trend, such as " spice colors of the season ": mustard, saffron, curry and cinnamon.