Camel (color)

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.

  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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