Photo in the color Camel
Pictured: Camel
rgb(193, 154, 107)
#C19A6B

Fallow #C19A6B RGB Color Code

Also known as Lion, Camel, Desert, Wood Brown

Fallow (#C19A6B) is a muted, light orange. In RGB it is made of 76% red, 60% green and 42% blue (R 193, G 154, B 107). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 33°, 41% saturation and 59% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.355, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 20% magenta, 45% yellow and 24% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Fallow color codes

#C19A6B in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #C19A6B Valid CSS
RGB rgb(193, 154, 107) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(33, 41%, 59%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(33, 45%, 76%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(33 42% 24%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 20%, 45%, 24%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(71.13% 0.0782 71.24) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(71.13% 0.0252 0.0741) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(66.46% 10.51 30.46) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(66.46% 32.22 70.96) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.7327 0.6098 0.4447) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.362 0.3551 0.1886) Valid CSS
Decimal 12687979 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.3551. Nearest web-safe color: #CC9966.

Mix Fallow with other colors

See what #C19A6B makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintFallow and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightFallow and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintFallow and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalFallow blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Fallow in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--fallow: #C19A6B;
Sass variable$fallow: #C19A6B;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-fallow: #C19A6B; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'fallow': '#C19A6B' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.757, green: 0.604, blue: 0.42)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.757, green: 0.604, blue: 0.42, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="fallow">#FFC19A6B</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFC19A6B)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #C19A6B (8.10:1, AAA). Here is how #C19A6B does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.59:1 on white
APCA Lc 51
Fails AATry #957042
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
8.10:1 on black
APCA Lc -51
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Fallow

#C19A6B next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

With deuteranopia, #C19A6B and #6BC19A look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Fallow

A word from Old English

Fallow is a pale, yellowish brown, like dry grass or sandy soil. The word goes back to Old English fealu, which meant pale yellow or light brown. German still has the related words fahl and falb. Maerz and Paul date its first use as a color name in English to the year 1000.

The fallow deer is named after this color. Its coat is a pale reddish brown with white spots in summer.

Not the same word as a fallow field

A fallow field is plowed land left without a crop for a season. That word comes from a different Old English word, fealh, and the two only look alike. Some people say the color is the shade of a dry, unplanted field. The Wikipedia article on fallow calls this a story made up after the fact.

One code, several names

#C19A6B is the ISCC-NBS light yellowish brown. This site gives the very same code to camel, wood brown, desert and lion. Those names are much younger. Wood brown was first recorded in 1886, camel in 1916 and desert in 1920.

Fallow in a user interface

A sample app screen with #C19A6B as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #C19A6B as it is. On the light theme, #C19A6B is too hard to read as text (2.59:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #957042 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Fallow

These schemes turn the hue of #C19A6B around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#C19A6B#6B92C1

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#C16F6Bthis#C19A6B#BDC16B

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#C19A6B#6BC19A#9A6BC1

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#C19A6B#6BBDC1#6F6BC1

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#C19A6B#92C16B#6B92C1#9A6BC1

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#C19A6B#6BC16F#6B92C1#C16BBD

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#48351E#826037#B78A54#D0B28F#E8DAC9

Gradients with Fallow

Four CSS gradients made from #C19A6B. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F3EAE1, #C19A6B);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #C19A6B, #342718);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C16F6B, #C19A6B, #BDC16B);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C19A6B, #9EAF83, #6BC19A);

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Shades, tints and tones of Fallow

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Fallow sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5EA
  2. 100
    FDE9D3
  3. 200
    F0D6B8
  4. 300
    DCBB94
  5. 400
    C19A6B
  6. 500
    A47E50
  7. 600
    886437
  8. 700
    6E4E25
  9. 800
    573C19
  10. 900
    402C12
  11. 950
    251B0D

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #C19A6B in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1024 Ochre yellow#BA8F4C, very close (ΔE 4.1)Tailwind CSSstone-400 #A8A29E, close (ΔE 7.0)CSS color namesperu #CD853F, close (ΔE 5.8)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of orange or search the color library.