Fallow (color)

Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of withered foliage or sandy soil in fallow fields.^[2] 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[1]
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.^[3] The color was historically often used to describe the coats of some animals, such as fallow deer.^[2]

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,^[4][a] 1916,^[6] and 1920,^[7] 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.^[5]