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🥛 A mild dairy 🎨 A pale color
light cream

light cream

2.6
A very pale beige colour used for walls, clothes, and makeup
  • noun
  • /laɪt krim/
translation icon : crema clara
  • She selected a light cream fabric to complement the darker furnishings in her living room.

You know, basic Browns, light cream shades, dark, really, really deep dark Browns.

Examples

  • I'm going to take a flat eyeshadow brush into this light cream color and just go all all over the lid.

  • Any light cream matte shades that you have will work just fine.

  • So this is what we have to work with in terms of a light cream color.

  • It's not like a total light cream, but really good on the outside edge there.

  • The interior designer chose a light cream for the walls to create a warm, inviting atmosphere.

  • The artist used a light cream hue to highlight the softer elements of her painting.

Synonyms

crème
vslight cream
2 3.9

A pale yellowish-white color like dairy cream

is paler and leans more toward beige off-white than yellow

Antonyms

dark
588 1.0

Having a deep brown or nearly black color

How Light

white
∞ 1.0
off-white
4 3.0
light cream
2.6
beige
17 1.0
tan
30 1.0

Surface Forms

light cream singular
light creams plural

Morphology

light + cream

The phrase is a straightforward compositional color description: 'light' (paler/less intense) modifies 'cream' (a pale off-white/yellowish color), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This modifier+noun color pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended pale cream shade.

Etymology

Light cream as a color name comes from the pale shade of dairy cream: the word light means 'pale' and cream points to the soft off-white look of milk fat. So when people choose a 'light cream' paint or fabric, they mean a warm, pale off-white color.