Cream is the

colour Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorp ...

of the cream produced by

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grazing on natural

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Types of pasture Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, c ...

with plants rich in

yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In t ...

carotenoid pigments, some of which are incorporated into the fresh milk (specifically, the butterfat). This gives a yellow tone to otherwise-

white White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...

milk at higher fat concentrations. Cream is the pastel colour of yellow, much as

pink Pink is a pale tint of red, the color of the Dianthus plumarius, pink flower. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, p ...

is to red. By mixing yellow and white, cream can be produced. Strawberry ice cream dessert

The first recorded use of ''cream'' as a colour name in English was in 1590.

In nature

Birds * The cream-coloured courser * The cream-coloured woodpecker Mammals * The cream-coloured giant squirrel

In human culture

Art

* Cream is used as a skin tone in some forms of art, mostly

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. It is also used to describe the general skin tone of East and South East Asia.

Clothing

* Men's white tuxedo jackets are usually a shade of cream or ivory to better stand out against the white dress shirt.

Interior design

* The colour cream is widely used as one of the off-white colours in

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Sports

* The

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Hoosiers' official colours are cream and

crimson Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple. It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, '' Kermes vermilio'', but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red col ...

. * The

University of Nebraska A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

Cornhuskers' official colours are scarlet and cream. *The

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...

Sooners' official colours are crimson and cream. * Club América's original colours are cream and blue, before switching to yellow and blue. * Universitario de Deportes' official colours are cream and burgundy. * Sport Club Corinthians Paulista's first uniform featured cream shirts before switching definitively to white shirts (due to a washing up error), which were kept since then.

References

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