BUFF (COLOUR)

:''For other uses of the term, see Buff''
'Buff' is a pale yellow-brown colour that got its name from the colour of buffalo leather.

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Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions

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Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions

Buff is a common colour in many areas. As the colour has good camouflage qualities in the natural environment in dry climates where sand and soil are often buff-coloured, it is also widespread in the animal kingdom. The word buff appears in the name of several species with this colour, such as the Buff-breasted Sandpiper and the Buff-bellied Pipit.
A 'buff envelope' is an envelope of this colour, used extensively in commercial mailings, and hence coming to mean any item containing commercial, rather than personal mail.
The flags of the United States states of Delaware and New Jersey include the colour buff.
The funnel colors of the White Star Line, owner of the RMS Titanic, were buff.
The U.S. Army's Institute of Heraldry has, innovatively, included ''buff'' as a tincture (specifically as a metal) in some of its coats of arms. This is because buff is the traditional colour of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps.
The colours of athletic team uniforms at Gallaudet University, George Washington University, Punahou School, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Hamilton College are buff and blue.
Buff is a commonly used grout pigment in masonry.

See also

★ Beige similar, but paler, greyer colour

★ Tan, a slightly darker, redder colour

★ List of colours