23 Color names for "Military Colors"

Dark khaki is a deep, muted yellow-greenish shade that evokes a natural, earthy feel. It corresponds to Dark Khaki in the X11 color names.

Horizon blue is a color name famously associated with the blue-grey uniforms worn by French metropolitan troops from 1915 to 1921. The name refers to the indistinct color that separates the sky from the earth. Before its military use, the shade was already popular in the fashion world and has remained in use since then. During World War I, it also became a symbol for political groups aligned with the army.

The color Air Superiority Blue, also known as PRU Blue, is shown. Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) Blue was devised by Sidney Cotton for the RAF during WW II as a low visibility camouflage colour for its high-flying Supermarine Spitfire and de Havilland Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft. As "air superiority blue" it was then adopted by the US Army Air Forces and was added as one of the colours when the Federal Standard 595 colour list was set up in 1956. This colour is used as camouflage by being painted on the bottom sides of reconnaissance aircraft to make them less visible from the ground.

The US Air Force Academy uses a particular shade of azure, subtly different from US Air Force blue, in its sporting and other insignia, described as USAFA blue in official documentation.

Mountbatten pink, also called Plymouth pink, is a naval camouflage color, a grayish tone of mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.

The Crayola color named "navy blue" is not as dark a shade as the standard navy blue. This tone of navy blue was formulated as a Crayola color in 1958.

Anti-flash white is a white colour commonly seen on British, Soviet, and U.S. nuclear bombers. The purpose of the colour is to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion, protecting the aircraft and its occupants. Many Strategic Air Command nuclear bombers carried anti-flash white without insignia on the underside of the fuselage with light silver-gray or natural metal (later light camouflage) on the upper surfaces.

Feldgrau (English: field-grey) is a grayish green color. It was the official basic color of military uniforms of the German armed forces from the early 20th century until 1945 (West Germany) or 1989 (East Germany). Armed forces of other countries also used various shades of that color. Feldgrau was used to refer to the color of uniforms of the armies of Germany, first the Imperial German Army and later the Heer (ground forces) of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht.

This is the web color called Khaki in HTML/CSS, which matches the color designated as Khaki in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, a standard for color nomenclature before the introduction of computers.

Rifle green, represented as Pantone 19-0419 TPX, is named for the distinctive color of rifle regiments' uniforms in European armies. First recorded in 1858, this dark green was adopted by 18th-century riflemen for camouflage, contrasting with the colorful uniforms of other soldiers. The original vegetable-based dyes often faded, prompting a gradual darkening until it approached black. After 1890, chemical dyes created the stable shade known today. In the U.S. military, only Special Forces soldiers can wear the rifle green beret. The color also served as the official uniform for the Canadian Forces and the Royal Ulster Constabulary until 2001.

Coyote brown, also known as nutria, is a color, often used in military camouflage.Coyote brown belongs to the dull yellow color subspectrum.

The first recorded use of Russian green as a color name in English was in the 1830s (exact year uncertain). The term appears to refer to the medium shade of green worn by most regiments of the Imperial Russian Army from 1700 to 1914.

Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow colour which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige. Desert sand was used by General Motors, along with "rosewood", as a paint color for their early Cadillacs. In 1998, desert sand was made into a Crayola crayon colour. The color matches the palest of the three colors in the 3-color Desert Camouflage Uniform of United States Armed Forces, which in 1990 began to replace the 6-color Desert Battle Dress Uniform.

US Air Force blue is designated as the colour Pantone 287.

Field drab is one of the twelve official camouflage colors of the United States Army.

Light khaki, also known as khaki tan or simply tan, is a pale shade of khaki.

Earth yellow is one of the twelve official camouflage colors of the United States Army.

The color Khaki Green is shown, sometimes referred to simply as Khaki in Commonwealth countries. It is more commonly known as Olive Green or Olive Drab.

Purple navy is a color that has been used by some navies. "Purple navy" in this color terminology usage is regarded as a shade of indigo, a color which can be regarded as a tone of purple when using the common English definition of purple, i.e., a color between blue and red. The first recorded use of purple navy as a color name in English was in 1926. The source of this color is Dictionary of Color Names (1955).

Air force blue is also known as RAF blue. This is the tone of air force blue used by the Royal Air Force, the first air force to choose an "air force blue" color by which to identify itself, in 1920. The color "air force blue" is a medium tone of azure since it has a hue code of 204 which is a hue code between 195 and 225, signifying a tone of azure.

Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with naval white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th century, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue. An early use of navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840 though the Oxford English Dictionary has a citation from 1813.

Air Force blue, more specifically Air Force blue (RAF) or RAF blue, is a medium shade of the colour azure. The shade derives from the light blue uniforms issued to the newly formed British Royal Air Force in 1920, which were influential in the design of the uniforms of some other air forces around the world. Similar shades are still used in Royal Air Force uniforms and the Royal Air Force Ensign.

Olive drab camouflage is a shade of olive drab used for painting vehicles, as defined by Federal Standard 595 in the United States.