Fallow (color)

Short description: Pale brown color

Fallow

Color coordinates
Hex triplet| #C19A6B
Source| ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor| Light 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 deer

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.

## Contents

* 1 See also
* 2 Notes
* 3 References
* 3.1 Bibliography
* 3.2 Citations
* 4 External links

## 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. 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.
* St. Clair, Kassia (2016). The Secret Lives of Colour. London: John Murray. ISBN 9781473630819. OCLC 936144129.

### 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.

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Shades of brown

| Auburn| Almond| Beaver| Bistre| Bole| Bronze| Brown| Brown sugar| Buff| Burgundy

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Burnt sienna| Burnt umber| Camel| Caput mortuum| Caramel| Chamoisee| Chestnut| Chocolate| Citron| Cocoa Brown
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Coffee| Copper| Cordovan| Coyote| Desert sand| Drab dark brown| Earth yellow| Ecru| Fallow| Fawn
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Field drab| Fulvous| Golden brown| Goldenrod| Harvest gold| Khaki| Lion| Liver| Mahogany| Maroon
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Ochre| Olive| Raw umber| Redwood| Rufous| Russet| Rust| Sand| Sandy brown| Satin sheen gold
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Seal brown| Sepia| Sienna| Sinopia| Tan| Taupe| Tawny| Umber| Walnut brown| Wenge
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Wheat

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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