19 Color names for "Shades Of Light Brown"

Cinereous is a color, ashy gray in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a gray color tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereous, from cinis (ashes). The first recorded use of cinereous as a color name in English was in 1661.

Light taupe (dark tan) is the light tone of taupe that is the color called taupe in Crayola colored pencils.

The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926. The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan tan are identical to café au lait and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 and 1927, respectively.

Bistre brown can be described as a medium brownish tone of the color bistre, also known as soot brown. This is the tone of bistre that most closely matches the color sample in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul. This tone of bistre is the color of the ink that was used by the Old Masters for their drawings. The normalized color coordinates for bistre brown are identical to the color names drab, sand dune, and mode beige, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1925, and 1928.

Beaver is a shade of brown representative of the color of a beaver. At a hue of 22, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of beaver as a color name in English was in 1705. The color "beaver" was formulated as one of the Crayola colors in 1998. Etymologically, it's believed that the words "brown" and "beaver" ultimately stem from the same root word in English.

Wood brown is a color that resembles wood. At a hue of 33, it is classified as an orange-brown. The first recorded use of wood brown as a color name in English was in Robert Ridgway's 1886 book Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists. Ridgway further refined the details of its color coordinates in his 1912 publication Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. The normalized color coordinates for wood brown are identical to fallow, camel and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, 1916, and 1920, respectively.

The first recorded use of French beige as a color name in English was in 1927. The normalized color coordinates for French beige are identical to café au lait and Tuscan tan, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 and 1926, respectively.

Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of withered foliage or sandy soil in fallow fields. 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. The color was historically often used to describe the coats of some animals, such as fallow deer. 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, 1916, and 1920, respectively.

Displayed here is the web colorrosy brown. At a hue of 359, it is classified as a red-brown. The color name rosy brown first came into use in 1987, when this color was formulated as one of the X11 colors, which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 web colors.

Desert is a color that resembles the color of the flat areas of a desert. The first recorded use of desert as a color name in English was in 1920. The normalized color coordinates for desert are identical to fallow, wood brown and camel, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, 1886, and 1916, respectively.

The color café au lait is also known as coffee and milk or latte. This is a representation of the color of coffee mixed with milk, which when prepared commercially by a barista in a coffee shop is known as a latte. The first recorded use of cafe au lait as a color name in English was in 1839. The normalized color coordinates for café au lait are identical to Tuscan tan and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1926 and 1927, respectively.

Mode beige is a very dark shade of beige. The first recorded use of mode beige as a color name in English was in 1928. The normalized color coordinates for mode beige are identical to the color names drab, sand dune, and bistre brown, which were first recorded as color names in English, respectively, in 1686, 1925, and 1930.

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.

Manhattan is a pale light grayish brown color.

Plum is a purple color with a brownish-gray tinge, like that shown in the color box, or a reddish purple, which is a close representation of the average color of the plum fruit. As a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel, plum is an equal mix of the tertiary colors russet and slate. The first recorded use of plum as a color name in English was in 1805.

Burlywood is a light to medium shade of brown that resembles the color of raw wood. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the color of buffed leather. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, buff as a descriptor of a color was first used in the London Gazette of 1686, describing a uniform to be "A Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining".

Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which wereformulated by Crayola in 2001.

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.