Famous Light Beige References. It is more than a single color as it is commonly used to describe a wide variety of light earthy browns and yellows. The word comes from the old french bege meaning undyed wool. beige was used as a color term in france from around 1855 and the word made its way to english by 1887.

It has a hue angle of 60 degrees, a saturation of 55.6% and a lightness of 91.2%. This color has an approximate wavelength of 578.15 nm. The color light beige corresponds to the hex code #fffeb6.