Beige (#F5F5DC) is a very light, moderately saturated yellow hue. Beige is a pale sandy neutral; the name comes from undyed wool.
In RGB it is made of 245 red, 245 green and 220 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 60° with 56% saturation and 91% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 96% with a chroma of 0.033. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 10% yellow and 4% black.
As a text color on white, Beige has a contrast ratio of 1.11:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 18.98:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Beige as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 99 for black text and Lc 0 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #F2F1FF, close to off-white. Colors that look most similar are cream, champagne, off-white. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 1), so its meaning mostly survives.