Color Names

Clay Beige

Dusty, air-dried clay, pale as the studio floor after a sculptor has cleaned up.

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Clay Beige is a pale grey.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Clay Beige

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

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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, hence also the color of natural wool.

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clay

Noun

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.

Verb

  1. To add clay to or to spread clay onto.
  2. To purify using clay.
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beige

Noun

  1. A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
  2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Adjective

  1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
  2. Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
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