Pale brown color
Camel Hex triplet #C19A6B sRGB B (r , g , b )(193, 154, 107) HSV (h , s , v )(33°, 45%, 76%) CIELChuv (L , C , h )(66, 47, 52°) Source ISCC-NBS ISCC–NBS descriptor Light 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
^ 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
^ Maerz & Paul, p. 191; Color Sample of Camel: p. 49 Plate 15 Color Sample A6
^ Maerz & Paul, p. 195; Color Sample of Fallow: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample B5
^ Ridgway (1886), pp. 36, 54, 117; Color Sample of Wood Brown: Plate III fig. 19
^ Ridgway (1912), p. 40; Color Sample of Wood Brown: Plate XL
^ Maerz & Paul, p. 203; Color Sample of Desert: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample I7
A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.