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 Colour coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E0AB76 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (224, 171, 118) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (30°, 47%, 88%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (74, 58, 47°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate orange yellow |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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Buff (Latin:bubalinus)[2][3] is a lightbrownishyellow,ochreous colour, typical ofbuff leather.[4][5] Buff is a mixture ofyellow ochre andwhite:[6] two parts ofwhite lead and one part ofyellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.[7]
As anRYBquaternary colour, it is the colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colourscitron andrusset.[8]The hex RGB color value of the Buff swatch as an RYB quaternary colour is E0AB76.
The first recorded use of the wordbuff to describe a colour was inThe London Gazette of 1686, describing a uniform to be "...a Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining".[12] It referred to the colour of undyed buffalo leather, such as soldiers wore as some protection:[13] an eyewitness to the death in theBattle of Edgehill (1642) ofSir Edmund Verney noted "he would neither put on arms [armour] orbuff coat the day of the battle".[14][15] Suchbuff leather was suitable forbuffing or serving as abuffer between polished objects. It is not clear which bovine "buffalo" referred to, but it may not have been any of theanimals called "buffalo" today.[16]
The wordbuff meaning "enthusiast" or "expert" (US English) derives from the colour "buff", specifically from the buff-coloured uniform facings of 19th-century New York City volunteer firemen, who inspired partisan followers among particularly keen fire watchers.[17]
"In the buff", today meaning naked, originally applied to English soldiers wearing the buff leathertunic that was their uniform until the 17th century. The "naked" signification is due to the perception that (English) skin is buff-coloured.[18]
Sand, rock, andloess tend to be buff in many areas.
Because buff is effective incamouflage, it is often naturally selected.
Manyspecies are named for their buff markings, including thebuff arches moth, thebuff-bellied climbing mouse, and at least sixty birds, including thebuff-fronted quail-dove, thebuff-vented bulbul, and thebuff-spotted flufftail.
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In areas where buff raw materials are available, buff walls and buildings may be found.Cotswold stone is an example of such a material, as isCream City brick.
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Unless bleached or dyed, paper products, such asManila paper, tend to be buff. Buffenvelopes are used extensively in commercial mailings.
Buff paper is sometimes favoured by artists seeking a neutral background colour for drawings, especially those featuring the colour white.
Buff domesticated animals and plants have been created, including dogs, cats, and poultry. The wordbuff is used in written standards of severalbreeds, and some, such as theBuff turkey, are specifically named "buff".
In 16th- and 17th-centuryEuropean cultures, buffwaistcoats ("vests" in American English), were considered propercasual wear. In the 17th century, the traditional colour of formaldress boot uppers was often described as "buff".
Clothing depicted onJohn Bull, anational personification ofBritain in general andEngland in particular,[19] in political cartoons and similar graphic works, has often been buff coloured.[20] Bull's buff waistcoats, topcoats,[21] trousers[22] and boot uppers[23] were typical of 18th- and 19th-century Englishmen.[21]
Buff is a traditional European military uniform colour. Buff has goodcamouflage qualities assand,soil, and dry vegetation are buff in many areas. The termbuff coat refers to a part of 17th-century European military uniforms. Such coats were intended to protect the wearer, and the strongest and finest leathers tend to be buff, so the term "buff coats" came to refer to all such coats, even if the colour varied.[citation needed]
TheRoyal East Kent Regiment was nicknamed "The Buffs" from the colour of theirwaistcoats. The phrase "Steady the Buffs!", popularised byRudyard Kipling in his 1888 workSoldiers Three, has its origins during 2nd Battalion's garrison duties in Malta. Adjutant Cotter, not wanting to be shown up in front of his former regiment, the 21stRoyal (North British) Fusiliers, spurred his men on with the words: "Steady, the Buffs! The Fusiliers are watching you."[24]
The uniform of the AmericanContinental Army was buff and blue.[13]
Buff is the traditional colour of theUS Army Quartermaster Corps.
TheUS Army Institute of Heraldry specifies a "buff"tincture for certaincoats of arms, often treating it as a metal for purposes of therule of tincture.
The colours ofGeorge Washington University andHamilton College are buff and blue, modelled on the military uniform of GeneralGeorge Washington and the Continental Army. Both General Washington andAlexander Hamilton, as chief of staff, had a role in the design of the uniforms.
Other school colours described as "buff and blue" includeGallaudet University in Washington, D.C., andPunahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Buff is one of three colours of theAlpha Gamma Delta fraternity, and one of two colours of theDelta Chi fraternity.
The flags ofDelaware,New Jersey andIndiana, and the former flags ofNew York andMaine, officially feature buff.
The flag of Delaware has "a background of colonial blue surrounding a diamond of buff"
The flag of New Jersey has "the State seal ... in Jersey blue on a buff background"![The flag of Indiana has "nineteen stars and a flaming torch in gold or buff."[25]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aFlag_of_Indiana.svg)
The flag of Indiana has "nineteen stars and a flaming torch in gold or buff."[25].svg)
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The colours of theWhig Party, a British political faction, and laterpolitical party, as well as the AmericanWhig Party, were buff and blue.[13]
Thefunnels of theRMSTitanic and all other ships of theWhite Star Line were designated to be "buff with a black top" in order to indicate their ownership. There is some uncertainty among experts, however, as to the exact shade of what is now called "White Star buff". There is no surviving paint or formula, and although there are many painted postcards and at least seven colour photographs of White Star liners, the shades of the funnels in these varies due to many factors including the conditions under which they were originally made and the ageing of the pigments in which they were printed. Speaking mostly toscale modellers, the Titanic Research and Modelling Association currently recommend a colour "in the range of theMarschall color", meaning the colour in illustrations in a particular book.[26][27]
As a relatively inexpensive and readily available paint colour, and one which went well alongside the near-universal blackhull and whitesuperstructure used on steamships at the time, White Star was far from the only shipping line to use a shade of buff as a funnel colour. TheOrient Line andNorddeutscher Lloyd used an entirely buff funnel without the black top, whileCanadian Pacific and theSwedish American Line employed a buff funnel with a representation of the company'shouse flag on them. TheBibby Line and theFyffes Line are two of several firms to use the same "buff with a black top" scheme as White Star, but with a similar lack of certainty as to the exact shade used and how this differed from the famous White Star scheme.
As well as being a colour used by the United States Army Institute of Heraldry, buff is also recognised as atincture by theCanadian Heraldic Authority. It appears on theheraldic badge and flag of theCorrectional Service of Canada.[28]
while the figure with which we're most familiar, the portly one resplendent in top hat, top boots, buff-coloured trousers, swallow-tailed coat, and sporting the British flag on his waistcoat, was the work of Sir Carruthers Gould as depicted in theWestminster Gazette in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
An earlier version of this article appeared on the TRMA website in October 2004 under the title 'Photographic and Illustrative Evidence of White Star Buff'. In December 2004, the article was rewritten under its present title to reflect new evidence and new debate on the subject since the writing of the original article.
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