Fallow (color)

Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of withered foliage or sandy soil in fallow fields.^[1] This however is a post factum rationalization, and the etymologies are distinct.

Fallow deer

Fallow
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°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light yellowish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Fallow is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of fallow as a color name in English was in the year 1000.^[2] The color was historically often used to describe the coats of some animals, such as fallow deer.^[1]

The normalized color coordinates for fallow are identical to wood brown, camel and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1886,^[3][a] 1916,^[5] and 1920,^[6] respectively.

See also

• List of colors

Notes

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

References

Bibliography

• Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. LCCN 30016563. OCLC 1150631.
• Ridgway, Robert (1886). Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. OCLC 768502.
• Ridgway, Robert (1912). Color standards and color nomenclature. Washington, D.C.: Robert Ridgway. LCCN 13007093. OCLC 630954.
• St. Clair, Kassia (2016). The Secret Lives of Colour. London: John Murray. ISBN 9781473630819. OCLC 936144129.

Citations

1. St. Clair, pp. 244–245
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. 191; Color Sample of Camel: p. 49 Plate 15 Color Sample A6
6. Maerz & Paul, p. 203; Color Sample of Desert: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample I7

External links

• ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) - Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps—See sample of the color Fallow (color sample #76) displayed on indicated page.