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[Silverwing235]

...in the current context (adv mode) because the (perhaps accidental) painterly terms are very immersion-breaking/distracting as it stands - my pseudo-Pavlovian response at present is to grab a web search, even though one is educated enough to not need such reminders, let alone knowing what the colors mean in the first place.... Anyone else? 

[DPh Kraken]

I think they're good words as they stand. Ecru rendered in plainer speech would properly be "flax", which would be redundant with an existing color. Further reduction would land at "a grayish yellow", which states the hue and chroma but is incredibly nonspecific in value.
Having precise names for colors allows there to be cleverness, such as with dwarves having eyes colored like minerals. They're presently cheating with heliotrope eyes (which would be green flecked with red) that are defined as purple, and that gives me pause on suggesting anything description-based with the defined hex codes.

Premium graphics can just render the color of an object (including a character portrait), which should solve most of the coloration information woes. I do concede that it's a bit odd that painterly terms are used for hair and skin, but after you get out of the most typical names you're in the land of web colors and Pantone to name things.