Camel (color)

Short description: Pale brown color

Camel
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#C19A6B
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light yellowish brown

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.

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, 1886, and 1920, 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

• List of colors

References

Bibliography

• Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. OCLC 1150631. 
• Ridgway, Robert (1886). Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. OCLC 768502. https://archive.org/details/nomenclatureofc00ridg/mode/2up. 
• Ridgway, Robert (1912). Color standards and color nomenclature. Washington, D.C.: Robert Ridgway. OCLC 630954. https://archive.org/details/colorstandardsc00ridg/mode/2up.