Khaki (color)

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The colour khaki comes from the Persian word khak (through Urdu), meaning dust, and khaki meaning dusty, dust covered or earth coloured. It has been used by many armies around the world for camouflage uniforms. Most notably, khaki was used by the British Army in India in 1848.

Khaki-coloured uniforms were used officially for the first time during the Abyssinian campaign of 1867-68, when Indian troops set out under the command of general Sir Robert Napier to release some British captives and to "persuade the Abyssinian King /Theodore/, forcibly if necessary, to mend his ways". (Byron Farwell, Armies of the Raj, 1989, page 75.)

"This was the first major campaign in which some of the troops wore khaki, which had been officially introduced as approved working dress in 1861. Although approval was withdrawn in 1864, many troops, particularly those who had seen active service on the North-West Frontier, continued to dye their white drill uniforms with tea leaves or other substances. Khaki ('dusty') was said to have been invented by Lieutenant (later Lieutanent-general) Harry Lumsden when, in December 1846, he founded the Corps of Guides." (Farwell, page 77.)

Nowadays, it is a standard colour for semi-formal dress pants.

The name is sometimes also incorrectly used to describe a green colour similar to Asparagus or Pale Sea Green, especially by the linen/textile/lingerie industries.

1 Khaki
2 Medium Khaki
3 Light Khaki
4 Reference
5 See also

[edit] Khaki

Khaki
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#C3B091
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(195, 176, 145)
CMYK^H	(c, m, y, k)	(0, 10, 26, 24)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(37°, 26%, 76%)
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the colour khaki.

This is the colour called khaki in HTML/CSS.

This is the colour generally thought of as being khaki by the average person--this is the colour that one expects to see when one buys a pair of khaki pants. This is also the colour designated as khaki in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the standard for color nomenclature before the introduction of computers.

The first recorded use of khaki as a color name in English was in 1848. <ref> Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197; Color Sample of Khaki: Page 49 Plate 13 Color Sample J7</ref>

[edit] Medium Khaki

Medium Khaki
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#BDB76B
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(189, 183, 107)
CMYK^H	(c, m, y, k)	(0, 3, 43, 26)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(56°, 43%, 74%)
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color medium khaki.

This is the color that, in an unfortunate choice of nomenclature, is called dark khaki (one of the X11 color names) in X11 because, although it is lighter than HTML/CSS khaki, it is darker than X11 khaki. .

[edit] Light Khaki

Light Khaki
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#F0E68C
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(240, 230, 140)
CMYK^H	(c, m, y, k)	(-, -, -, -)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(54°, 41%, 94%)
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color light khaki is a pale shade of khaki.

This is the color called khaki in X11. This is one of the cases where the X11 color names differs from the HTML/CSS names. See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11.

[edit] Reference

[edit] See also

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