Fallow (color)

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Short description: Pale brown color
Fallow
 
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Hex triplet#C19A6B
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight yellowish brown

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 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][lower-alpha 1] 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

Citations

  1. 1.0 1.1 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.