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{{Short description|Colour}}
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'''Cream''' is the [[colour]] of the [[cream]] produced by [[cattle]] grazing on natural [[pasture]] with plants rich in [[yellow]] [[carotenoid]] 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. Cream is the [[pastel (color)|pastel]] colour of yellow, much as [[pink]] is to [[red]]. By mixing yellow and white, cream can be produced.
[[File:Strawberry ice cream dessert.jpg|alt=Strawberries with cream|thumb|[[Strawberry|Strawberries]] with cream]]
The first recorded use of ''cream'' as a colour name in English was in 1590.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maerz  |first1= A.  |last2=Paul |first2=M. Rea |year=1930 |title=A Dictionary of Color |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill  |page=41 Plate 9 Colour Sample D4, 206}} The colour shown above matches the colour sample in the book.</ref>

==In nature==
'''Birds'''
* The [[Cream-colored courser|cream-coloured courser]]
* The [[cream-colored woodpecker|cream-coloured woodpecker]]

'''Mammals'''
* The [[cream-coloured giant squirrel]]

==In human culture==

===Art===
* Cream is used as a [[Human skin color|skin tone]] in some forms of art, mostly [[anime]]. 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 [[interior design]].

===Sports===
* The [[Indiana University Bloomington]] [[Indiana Hoosiers|Hoosiers]]' official colours are cream and [[Crimson (color)|crimson]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Colors IU |url=https://styleguide.iu.edu/visual-style/colors/index.html |access-date=March 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022141311/https://styleguide.iu.edu/visual-style/colors/index.html |archive-date=October 22, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* The [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]] [[Nebraska Cornhuskers|Cornhuskers]]' official colours are [[Scarlet (color)|scarlet]] and cream.
*The [[University of Oklahoma]] [[Oklahoma Sooners|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.

==See also==
* [[List of colours]]
* [[Tints and shades]]

==References==
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{{Shades of white}}
{{Shades of yellow}}

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[[Category:Shades of white]]
[[Category:Shades of yellow]]

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