Main Difference
The main difference between Beige and Ecru is that the Beige is a brown color with a cream colored tone; pale yellowish brown color and Ecru is a Color of unbleached linen or silk.
Beige vs. Ecru
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Beige
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, and hence also the color of natural wool. 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.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.
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Ecru
Ecru is the color of unbleached linen or silk, a light beige or fawn.
The word comes from French écru, 'raw' or 'unbleached'.
Wikipedia
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Beige (noun)
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
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Beige (noun)
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
Beige (adjective)
Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Beige (adjective)
Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
Ecru (noun)
A beige colour.
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Ecru (adjective)
Of a beige colour.
Wiktionary
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Beige (noun)
a pale sandy fawn colour
"a beige raincoat"
"tones of beige and green"
Ecru (noun)
the light fawn colour of unbleached linen
"shades of white, black, and ecru"
"an ecru cardigan"
Oxford Dictionary
Beige (noun)
Debeige.
Ecru (adjective)
Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
Webster Dictionary
Beige (noun)
a very light brown
Beige (adjective)
of a light grayish-brown color
Ecru (noun)
a very light brown
Princeton's WordNet
Beige Illustrations
