Ecru color
Ecru is a grayish pale yellow-brown, the color of unbleached linen. French for raw. Its hex code is #C9B98F.
- Hex
- #C9B98F
- RGB
- 201, 185, 143
- OKLCH
- 78.9% 0.059 89.6
- Value
- 8 of 10
- Family
- Yellow-orange
Is ecru warm or cool?
Warm: it sits on the warm side of the color wheel, with the reds, oranges and yellows. It is a light color, value 8 of 10, and its opposite is heather. More in warm and cool colors.
Ecru tints, tones and shades
A tint adds white, a tone adds gray of the same lightness, and a shade adds black. Each row starts with ecru itself.
Tints
#C9B98F#D4C7A5#DED5BB#E9E3D2#F4F1E8
Tones
#C9B98F#C6B998#C3BAA1#C0BAA9#BDBAB2
Shades
#C9B98F#998D6D#6D644E#433D30#1D1B15
The opposite of ecru
Opposite ecru on the color wheel sits heather, #9893B5. Side by side, each makes the other look stronger; mixed, they turn each other gray.
Ecru
Heather
Colors that go with ecru
With its opposite
#C9B98F · #F1EDE3 · #9896A7 · #9893B5 · #292831
With its neighbors
#D7B295 · #C9B98F · #B5C096 · #EFEADD · #433D30
One color, light to dark
#F7F4EE · #C0BAA9 · #C9B98F · #57503E · #1D1B15
Ecru in paintings
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