Cream is the
colour of the
cream produced by
cattle grazing on natural
pasture with plants rich in
yellowcarotenoid pigments, some of which are incorporated into the fresh milk (specifically, the butterfat). This gives a yellow tone to otherwise-
white milk at higher fat concentrations (so the colour of dairy cream could be considered partway between the colours of natural cow’s milk and butter). Cream is the
pastel colour of yellow, much as
pink is to
red. By mixing yellow and white, cream can be produced.
The first recorded use of cream as a colour name in
English was in 1590.[1]
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.
^Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 206; Colour Sample of Cream: Page 41 Plate 9 Colour Sample D4 The colour shown above matches the colour sample in the book.