Camel
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#C19A6B
sRGBB (r, g, b)(193, 154, 107)
HSV (h, s, v)(33°, 45%, 76%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(66, 47, 52°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight yellowish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Camel calf feeding on her mother's milk

Camel is a color that resembles the color of the hair of a camel.

The first recorded use of camel as a color name in English was in 1916.[1]

The normalized color coordinates for camel are identical to fallow, wood brown and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000,[2] 1886,[3][a] and 1920,[5] respectively.

Fashion

Camel is the color of a specific type of overcoat known as a polo coat or camel-hair coat. In a 1951 Collier's magazine fashion article, it is said camel colored polo coats are proper to wear in the summer, in the country and in the U.S. South, but navy blue overcoats are proper to wear in the city and in autumn, winter and spring.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ After recording "wood brown" in his 1886 book, Robert Ridgway further refined the details of its color coordinates in his 1912 publication.[4]

References

Bibliography

Citations

  1. ^ Maerz & Paul, p. 191; Color Sample of Camel: p. 49 Plate 15 Color Sample A6
  2. ^ Maerz & Paul, p. 195; Color Sample of Fallow: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample B5
  3. ^ Ridgway (1886), pp. 36, 54, 117; Color Sample of Wood Brown: Plate III fig. 19
  4. ^ Ridgway (1912), p. 40; Color Sample of Wood Brown: Plate XL
  5. ^ Maerz & Paul, p. 203; Color Sample of Desert: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample I7
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